cozen

[CozĀ·en]

To cozen is to mislead, defraud, or fool someone through lies. Cozen rhymes with dozen, and if you say you had two wrong answers on your math test, but you really had a dozen, you might be trying to cozen your parents.

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To cheat; to defrand; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.

Verb
cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man"

Verb
act with artful deceit

Verb
be false to; be dishonest with


v. t.
To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.

v. i.
To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully.


Cozen

Coz"en (k?z"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cozened (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cozening (-'n-?ng). ] [From cousin, hence, literally, to deceive through pretext of relationship, F. cousiner.] To cheat; to defrand; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
He had cozened the world by fine phrases.
Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters.
Goring loved no man so well but that he would cozen him, and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened.

To cheat; to defrand; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.

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