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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cozen .
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Examples
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These are minds that have come to their own conclusions; they can no longer be cozened with false statistics about how unemployment is falling, or not rising, or "rising more slowly."
Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street and the Scent of Revolution Nicholas Carroll 2011
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These are minds that have come to their own conclusions; they can no longer be cozened with false statistics about how unemployment is falling, or not rising, or "rising more slowly."
Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street and the Scent of Revolution Nicholas Carroll 2011
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And even if there were, I would never be cozened by empty promises.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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Most of the females were girls fresh from the country, young and chaste, who had been cozened or stolen into a life of prostitution with no idea what they were in for.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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And even if there were, I would never be cozened by empty promises.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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Most of the females were girls fresh from the country, young and chaste, who had been cozened or stolen into a life of prostitution with no idea what they were in for.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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And even if there were, I would never be cozened by empty promises.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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This, along with all the arguments against ratification of the EU Constitution, is something which we need to ram home at this moment when our electorate is so alive to the notion that they are being cozened by Labour and the Liberal ‘Democrats’ about the true effect of this Treaty.
Archive 2008-02-03 2008
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This is another aspect of a feeling that we, who gave the world so much, are being somehow cozened out of our rightful legacy.
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This, along with all the arguments against ratification of the EU Constitution, is something which we need to ram home at this moment when our electorate is so alive to the notion that they are being cozened by Labour and the Liberal ‘Democrats’ about the true effect of this Treaty.
Is the Worm Turning? 2008
Ubnin commented on the word cozened
Shades of 'hoodwinked' or 'conned', 'recognized as a mark or rube', or perhaps 'deceptively known'
May 27, 2009