cozener
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The man who planned the whole thing was a fool, a "cozener" of the king, and the ship, suppose it to be made, was "unfit for any other use but a dung-boat!"
From Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles
Sir William Keith, the Colonial Governor of Pennsylvania, whose fair promises, as we shall see, had led him on a fool's errand to London, was a free-thinker, and Sir William had proved an unprincipled cozener.
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
Therefore, follow my example; abandon the fair cozener utterly, and thy peace of mind will no longer he disturbed by her.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
And such a coward, A cozener and liar—but a coward, And would have been a thief—But was a coward.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831 by Various
Losengeour: deceiver, cozener; the word had analogues in the French "losengier," and the Spanish "lisongero."
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
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