cozening
Example Sentences
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Courtship and cozening can unfold while the players dance the maxixe.
From Time Magazine Archive
His father traveled hundreds of miles to prisons all over the country, taking him clean clothing, cozening prison officials to allow him a few words with his son.
From Time Magazine Archive
Having left it to him, she finds that instead of rights, she has only such privileges as she has gained by petitioning, coaxing and cozening.
From Woman and the New Race by Sanger, Margaret
My child, my darling," continued the old woman, in a cozening tone, "I will not trouble you or injure you: I cannot think of tearing from you your dearest happiness.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Struggle forces upon the group the necessity of cozening, beguiling, managing its members.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
