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UK
/kˈəʊzən/
]
VERB
- act with artful deceit
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cheat or trick
He cozened the money out of the old man - be false to; be dishonest with
How To Use cozen In A Sentence
- This, along with all the arguments against ratification of the EU Constitution, is something which we need to ram home at this moment when our electorate is so alive to the notion that they are being cozened by Labour and the Liberal ‘Democrats’ about the true effect of this Treaty. Archive 2008-02-03
- A clever lawyer can cozen the prisoner into an admission of guilt.
- There is a foolish country knight, Sir Nicholas Cully, whom two rogues cozen out of £1,000.
- As soon as I realized the possibility might arise to cozen one of his sweet little sisters. ON A WICKED DAWN
- As soon as I realized the possibility might arise to cozen one of his sweet little sisters. ON A WICKED DAWN
- It's something and nothing, if you take my point It'd be an amateur or a man who didn't know his own mind who'd do such a stupid thing … Or it could be a wee cozenage. ' The Alamut Ambush
- As soon as I realized the possibility might arise to cozen one of his sweet little sisters. ON A WICKED DAWN
- These are minds that have come to their own conclusions; they can no longer be cozened with false statistics about how unemployment is falling, or not rising, or "rising more slowly. Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street and the Scent of Revolution
- So we believed him and he ceased not to cozen us till he cast us into jail and fettered us and tortured us with exceeding sore torments; and we are strangers in the land and have no helper save Almighty Allah and our lord the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- A good speech is not full of subtle rhetoric, cozening shifts in vocal tone, and facial nuance.