cozenage
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By similar cozenage he had managed to extract $1,100 from the company.
From Time Magazine Archive
They say this town is full of cozenage; As, nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind.
From The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Clark, William George
And thou art grown expert in this sort of cozenage.
From The Decameron, Volume II by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)
Or what should I say of the oppressions, injustice, cozenage in trading and in merchandise, which yourselves know better than I can do how much they have abounded in the kingdom?
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George
But all these are trifles in comparison, if we step into other scenes, and consider the fraud and cozenage of trading men and shopkeepers; that insatiable gulf of injustice and oppression, the law.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Swift, Jonathan
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