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Skilful deception
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sleight of hand
Word definitions for sleight of hand in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sleight of hand (also known as prestidigitation or legerdemain ) refers to fine motor skills when used by performing artists in different art forms to entertain or manipulate. It is closely associated with close-up magic , card cheating , card flourishing ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Miller's financial sleight of hand resulted in the loss of $2 million in tax revenue. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All the empirical evidence in favour of accuracy order can now be shifted by sleight of hand in support of the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. manual dexterity in the execution of tricks [syn: prestidigitation ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The required digital dexterity behind magic tricks and illusions. 2 A performance of such skill.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sleight \Sleight\, n. [OE. sleighte, sleihte, sleithe, Icel. sl?g? (for sl?g?) slyness, cunning, fr. sl?gr (for sl?gr) sly, cunning. See Sly .] Cunning; craft; artful practice. [Obs.] ``His sleight and his covin.'' --Chaucer. An artful trick; ...
Usage examples of sleight of hand.
It took minutes for Phaid to realise that it was just a piece of psychic sleight of hand.
My progress with this field was one of the victims of my recent purge of this diary's pages, because from the start I kept a detailed record of what it took to become proficient in sleight of hand& but all this had to go when I decided to remove the rest.
It was one thing to play around with the magics of sleight of hand and quick change.
They were expecting a contest of subtlety, but sleight of hand was only one of Kalam's talents.