cozenage
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By similar cozenage he had managed to extract $1,100 from the company.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Victor MacClure
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 George Gillespie
Well, if he be in prison, I'll have warrants To 'tach my daughter till the law be tried, For I will sue him upon cozenage.
From The London Prodigal; "by William Shakespeare." as it was played by the King's Majesties servants. by Unknown
His art is nothing but delightful cozenage, whose rules are smoothing and guarded with perjury; whose scope is to make men fools in teaching them to overvalue themselves, and to tickle his friends to death.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
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