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cozeningverbpresent participle of cozen to cause to believe what is untruecozened several elderly ladies into believing that he was intending marriage 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 kidding, putting on, teasingbleeding, cheating, chiseling(or chiselling), defrauding, diddling, euchring, fleecing, flimflamming, gypping, hustling, mulcting, rooking, shortchanging, skinning, squeezing, sticking, stinging, swindling doing a number on, leading one down the garden path(also leading one up the garden path), pulling one's leg, pulling the wool over one's eyes undeceiving debunking, exposing, revealing, showing up, uncloaking, uncovering, unmaskingdisclosing, divulging, telling, unveilingdisabusing, disenchanting, disillusioning to rob by the use of trickery or threatscozened scores of people by persuading them to hand over funds that he would "invest" beating, bilking, bleeding, cheating, chiseling(or chiselling), chousing, conning, defrauding, diddling, doing, doing in, euchring, fiddling, fleecing, flimflamming, gaffing, gypping, 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 extorting, wrenching, wresting, wringingclipping, gouging, nicking, overcharging, soakingexploiting, milkingdeceiving, duping, fooling, gulling, trickingroping (in)betraying, bitching, double-crossingbamboozling, fast-talking selling a bill of goods to, taking for a ride, taking to the cleaners |