cozening

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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.

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

From Time Magazine Archive

They would keep me in prison cozening me with excuses, however urgently I might plead for him.

From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

Add not new crimes by cozening me anew; for I shall find out truth, though it lie hid even in the bottom of Philander's, heart.'

From Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Behn, Aphra

Therewithal she rightly apprehends the danger Bertram is in from the wordy, cozening squirt, the bedizened, scoundrelly dandiprat, who has so beguiled his youth and ignorance.

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman