cozenage
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By similar cozenage he had managed to extract $1,100 from the company.
From Time Magazine Archive
The shrug, the nod, the hem—every motion of the eyes, hands, feet—every air and gesture, look and word—became an expressive, though disguised, language of fraud and cozenage, big with deceit and swollen with ruin.
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Steinmetz, Andrew
It is a curious phenomenon, and one that constantly recurs in the history of cozenage, how people who live by spoof fall victims so readily to spoofery.
From She Stands Accused by MacClure, Victor
Is not it a maimed happiness—care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation, the strange cozenage of a brighter to-morrow?
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William
"They say this town is full of cozenage, As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks, And many such like libertines of sin."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 by Various
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