cozenage

Example Sentences

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By similar cozenage he had managed to extract $1,100 from the company.

From Time Magazine Archive

It falls perpetually into such necessities as drive it into all the meanest and most sordid ways of borrowing, cozenage, and robbery, Mancipiis locopules, eget aris Cappadocum Rex.

From Cowley's Essays by Cowley, Abraham

Their system of cozenage is not only applied to persons outside the profession, from whom they expect material gains; it is always at work to take in and delude the members of the guild.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo

And when I deliver the Yale lectures to young ministers, I shall tell them that there is a blessed guile, a holy cozenage of the heart whereby they may win their people's souls by stealth.

From St. Cuthbert's by Knowles, Robert E.

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