cozening

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Struggle forces upon the group the necessity of cozening, beguiling, managing its members.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

For there is no end to the deceits of the past; we protest that we know it is cozening us, and it continues to cozen us just as much.

From Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Lee, Vernon

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