Cozen meaning

Verb: cozen

Pronunciation: (kú-zun)

Cozen meaning:

• Be false to or be dishonest with.
• Act with artful deceit.
• Cheat or trick. To deceive or induce to do something by shrewd trickery or artful coaxing.

Synonyms: deceive, delude, cozen

Derived forms: cozened, cozening, cozens

Quotations: William Bolitho – The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon’s gin; out of any businessman’s life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.

Firdausi – Women are ever masters when they like, and cozen with their kindness; they have spells superior to the wand of the magicians; and from their lips the words of wisdom fall, like softest music on the listening ear.

Robert Burton – Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.

Edward Herbert – The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.

Thomas Fuller – Cheaters must get some credit before they can cozen, and all falsehood, if not founded in some truth, would not be fixed in any belief.

Sample sentences:

1. She cozened the money out of the old woman.
2. They cozen themselves with vain hopes and wishes.
3. It goes a great way towards making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so, and he that does but so much as suspect that I will deceive him gives me a sort of right to cozen him.
4. They have cozened their supper out of the old couple.
5. She has cozened several elderly men into believing that she was intending marriage.
6. I wish I could see the woman that could cozen me.
7. The people of this country are yet to be convinced that they have been cozened and deceived by the government.
8. She had cozened the world by sweet talk and fine phrases.
9. Some think to cozen him. He is not a man easily cozened, however.
10. And the beauty of the pearl, winking and glimmering in the light of the little candle, cozened his brain with its beauty.