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sleight

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sleight  (slt)
n.
1. Deftness; dexterity.
2. A clever or skillful trick or deception; an artifice or stratagem.

[Middle English, alteration of sleahthe, from Old Norse slgdh, from slgr, sly.]

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
Noun1.sleight - adroitness in using the handssleight - adroitness in using the hands        
adeptness, adroitness, deftness, quickness, facility - skillful performance or ability without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"; "he was famous for his facility as an archer"
Translations
sleight [slaɪt] N sleight of handprestidigitación f, juegos mpl de manos
sleight [ˈslaɪt] n
sleight of hand (= trick) → tour m de passe-passe
sleight
n sleight of handFingerfertigkeit f; by sleight of handdurch Taschenspielertricks
sleight [slaɪt] n sleight of hand (trick) → gioco di destrezza (fig) → trucchetto


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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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