cozenage
51ramp — Synonyms and related words: acclivity, arise, ascent, assault, attack, back stairs, ballot box stuffing, bank, barbarize, batter, be angry, be excitable, beat, beguile of, bellow, bevel, bezel, bilk, blow a gasket, blow up, bob, bounce, bristle,… …
52scam — Synonyms and related words: ballot box stuffing, beat, beguile of, bilk, bunco, burn, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, cozenage, crib, defraud, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, do in, do… …
53swindle — Synonyms and related words: abstract, abstraction, and, annex, annexation, appropriate, appropriation, bag, ballot box stuffing, bamboozle, beat, beguile of, bilk, bleed, bleed white, boost, boosting, borrow, buffalo, bunco, burn, cardsharping,… …
54Deception — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Deception >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 deception deception Sgm: N 1 falseness falseness &c. 544 Sgm: N 1 untruth untruth &c. 546 Sgm: N 1 imposition imposition imposture Sgm: N 1 fraud …
55cozen — 1560s, of uncertain origin; perhaps from Fr. cousiner cheat on pretext of being a cousin; or from M.E. cosyn fraud, trickery (mid 15c.), perhaps related to O.Fr. coçon dealer, merchant, trader, from L. cocionem horse dealer. Related: Cozenage …
56cozen — [ kʌz(ə)n] verb literary trick or deceive. Derivatives cozenage noun cozener noun Origin C16: perh. from obs. Ital. cozzonare to cheat …
57deceit — n. Deception, fraud, imposition, imposture, finesse, artifice, duplicity, guile, trickery, chicanery, cozenage, cheating, double dealing, crooked ways, dark ways, underhandedness, deceitfulness …
58artifice — n 1. stratagem, trick, wile, ruse; intrigue, plot, plan, scheme, strategy, machination; conspiracy, complot, cabal; device, contrivance, expedient, Inf. dodge, fetch, subterfuge, blind; maneuver, feint, deception, sleight, coup, blow, stroke;… …
59chicanery — n fraud, fraudulency, deceit, deception, chicane, duplicity, guile, double dealing, Sl. monkey business, Sl. dipsy doodle; trickery, gulling, knavery, rascality, hoodwinking, duping, hoaxing, befooling; dishonesty, falseness, humbuggery, artifice …
60deceit — n 1. deception, dissimulation, hypocrisy, duplicity, dark and crooked ways, evil ways; fraud, cheating, chicane, trickery; jugglery, trumpery, dupery, hocus pocus, fraudulence, shenanigan; craft, wiles, guile, finesse, Inf. razzle dazzle,… …
