cozening

NOUN

cheat

Synonyms

STRONGEST

chicanery deception fraud scam swindle trick trickery

STRONG

artifice baloney bunco con deceit dodge double-dealing fake flimflam frame hoax hoaxing humbug hustle imposture jazz jive plant put on racket ripoff sell sham spoof sting stunt whitewash

WEAK

bamboozlement bill of goods con game cover up dirty pool dirty trick fast one fast shuffle fix hanky-panky run around shady deal shell game snow job wrong

Antonyms

STRONGEST

honesty truthfulness

STRONG

frankness openness reality truth

NOUN

deceit

Synonyms

STRONGEST

chicanery deception dishonesty duplicity fraud hypocrisy treachery trickery

STRONG

ambidexterity ambidextrousness artifice cheating chicane craft craftiness cunning deceitfulness dissimulation double-dealing fraudulence guile imposition pretense slyness trapping

WEAK

defrauding dirty dealing dirty pool dissemblance entrapping overreaching smoke and mirrors two-facedness two-timing underhandedness

Antonyms

STRONGEST

fairness forthrightness frankness honesty openness sincerity trustworthiness truth truthfulness

STRONG

artlessness reality

WEAK

uprightness

NOUN

shiftiness

Synonyms

STRONG

ambidexterity ambidextrousness artifice cheating chicane chicanery craft craftiness cunning deceitfulness deception dishonesty dissimulation double-dealing duplicity fraud fraudulence guile hypocrisy imposition pretense slyness trapping treachery trickery

WEAK

defrauding dirty dealing dirty pool dissemblance entrapping overreaching smoke and mirrors two-facedness two-timing underhandedness

Antonyms

STRONG

artlessness fairness forthrightness frankness honesty honor openness reality sincerity trustworthiness truth truthfulness

NOUN

victimization

Synonyms

STRONGEST

deception

STRONG

artifice baloney bunco chicanery con deceit dodge double-dealing fake fix flimflam fraud hoax humbug hustle imposture jazz jive put on racket ripoff scam sham spoof sting stunt swindle trickery whitewash

WEAK

bamboozlement bill of goods con game dirty pool dirty trick fast one fast shuffle hanky-panky hoaxing run around shady deal shell game snow job

Antonyms

STRONG

forthrightness frankness honesty

Example Sentences

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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

Courtship and cozening can unfold while the players dance the maxixe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Be that as it may, he has a surprising clientele of which he makes the most, for he is a master-hand at cozening women out of their money.

From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

I have made a scurvy bargain: art a cozening knave.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

As I grow to know him better, however, I find he is not cozening the public so much as imposing on himself.

From The Story of an Untold Love by Ford, Paul Leicester

cozening

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