cozenage
61fraud — n 1. deceit, trickery, sharp practice, doubledealing, cozenage, Law. barratry, Canon. Law. obrep tion, Scots. Law. subreption, Archaic. covin; chicanery, knavery, Inf. hanky panky, Sl. monkey business, Sl. funny business; imposture, imposition,… …
62hocus-pocus — n 1. mumbo jumbo, abracadabra, open sesame, magic word, magic formula; incantation, chant, invocation, conjuration, conjuring, evocation. 2. juggler s trick, jugglery, sleight of hand, legerdemain, prestidigitation, Brit. hanky panky; feint,… …
63imposture — n 1. imposition, exploitation, swindle, swindling, defraudation, bunco, misrepresentation; hoax, trick, artifice, wile, ruse; deception, duplicity, double dealing, sharping, sharking; cheating, trickery, cozenage, chicanery, knavery; confidence… …
64knavery — n 1. rascality, roguery, roguishness, unscrupulousness, baseness, knavishness; villainy, miscreancy, deviltry, evildoing, wrongdoing, evil ways, dark and crooked ways; mischief, mischievousness, pettifoggery, chicanery, shenanigans, hanky panky,… …
65legerdemain — n 1. sleight of hand, jugglery, juggling, prestidigitation, conjuring, hocus pocus; magic, trickery, thaumaturgy. 2. deception, deceit, dissimulation, duplicity, dark and crooked ways, evil ways; fraud, cheating, chicane; trumpery, dupery,… …
66pettifoggery — n jobbery, underhand practice or dealing, corruption, dishonesty, falseness, humbug gery, artifice, subterfuge; bamboozling, cheating, cozenage, swindling, fleecing; fraud, fraudulency, deceit, deception, chicane, duplicity, guile, double dealing …
67prestidigitation — n 1. legerdemain, sleight of hand, jugglery, juggling, conjuring, hocus pocus; magic, trickery, thaumaturgy. 2. deception, deceit, dissimulation, duplicity, dark and crooked ways, evil ways; fraud, cheating, chicane; trumpery, dupery, fraudulence …
68quackery — n charlatanism, charlatanry, sciolism, humbuggery, humbug; imposture, trickery, chicanery, knavery, fraudulence; deception, cozenage, delusion, fraud, sham; swindle, hoax, U.S. Inf. bunko, defraud ment, misrepresentation; sharping, sharking,… …
69swindle — v 1. cheat, defraud, fleece, rook, Sl. clip, gull, Archaic. chouse; overcharge, Sl. soak, Inf. gyp, Sl. take [s.o.] to the cleaners, Sl. chisel, Sl. gaff, pluck, mulct; victimize, exploit, play on or upon, take advantage of, Inf. diddle, Inf. do …
70trickery — n deceit, guile, artifice, craft, craftiness, shrewdness, wiliness, slyness, circumvention; artfulness, subtlety, finesse, Inf. razzle dazzle, Sl. jive, Sl. hype; shiftiness, evasiveness, slipperiness; duplicity, double dealing, cozenage, dark… …
