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cozenage

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Synonyms & Antonyms of cozenage

the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery

through cozenage and flattery, the art dealer coaxed the unwary into selling their family treasures for a song

Synonyms for cozenage

artifice,
cheating,
craft,
craftiness,
crookedness,
crookery,
cunning,
cunningness,
deceit,
deceitfulness,
deception,
deceptiveness,
dishonesty,
dissembling,
dissimulation,
double-dealing,
dupery,
duplicity,
fakery,
foxiness,
fraud,
guile,
guilefulness,
wiliness

Words Related to cozenage

equivocation,
lying,
mendacity,
prevarication

chicane,
chicanery,
fraudulence,
hanky-panky,
jugglery,
legerdemain,
mountebankery,
obliquity,
skulduggery
(or skullduggery),
subterfuge,
swindling,
trickery,
wile

falsehood,
falsity,
fib,
untruth

hypocrisy,
insincerity,
sanctimoniousness,
two-facedness

artfulness,
caginess
(also cageyness),
deviousness,
shrewdness

treacherousness,
underhandedness,
unscrupulousness

covertness,
furtiveness,
secrecy,
shadiness,
sneakiness,
stealthiness

oiliness,
shiftiness,
slickness,
slipperiness,
slyness,
smoothness

Near Antonyms for cozenage

candidness,
candor,
directness,
frankness,
openness,
plainness,
plainspokenness

honesty,
probity

dependability,
reliability,
reliableness,
solidity,
trustability,
trustiness,
trustworthiness

decency,
goodness,
incorruptibility,
integrity,
righteousness,
truthfulness,
uprightness,
virtuousness

Antonyms for cozenage

artlessness,
forthrightness,
good faith,
guilelessness,
ingenuousness,
sincerity

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