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sleight [slaɪt] n Archaic
1. skill; dexterity See also sleight of hand 2. a trick or stratagem 3. cunning; trickery [from Old Norse slægth, from slægr sly] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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An obliging stranger, under pretence of compactly folding up my bank-notes for security's sake, abstracts the notes and gives me nutshells; but what is his sleight of hand to mine, when I fold up my own nutshells and pass them on myself as notes! Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues! You could have done it by sleight of hand in a hundred other ways besides that pretence of putting a paper donkey's tail to Fischer's coat. |
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