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present participle of cozen
Synonyms & Antonyms of cozening
1
to cause to believe what is untrue
- cozened several elderly ladies into believing that he was intending marriage
Synonyms for cozening
- bamboozling,
- beguiling,
- bluffing,
- buffaloing,
- burning,
- catching,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deluding,
- duping,
- faking out,
- fooling,
- gaffing,
- gammoning,
- gulling,
- having,
- having on
- [chiefly British],
- hoaxing,
- hoodwinking,
- hornswoggling,
- humbugging,
- juggling,
- misguiding,
- misinforming,
- misleading,
- snookering,
- snowing,
- spoofing,
- stringing along,
- suckering,
- sucking in,
- taking in,
- tricking
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2
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
- cozened scores of people by persuading them to hand over funds that he would "invest"
Synonyms for cozening
- beating,
- bilking,
- bleeding,
- cheating,
- chiseling
- (or chiselling),
- chousing,
- conning,
- defrauding,
- diddling,
- doing,
- doing in,
- euchring,
- fiddling,
- fleecing,
- flimflamming,
- gaffing,
- hosing
- [slang],
- hustling,
- mulcting,
- nobbling
- [British slang],
- plucking,
- reaming,
- ripping off,
- rooking,
- screwing,
- shaking down,
- shortchanging,
- shorting,
- skinning,
- skunking,
- squeezing,
- sticking,
- stiffing,
- stinging,
- suckering,
- swindling,
- thimblerigging,
- victimizing
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