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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 [slite]
Noun
Old-fashioned skill or cunning [Old Norse slǣgth]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.sleightsleight - adroitness in using the hands
dexterity, manual dexterity
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
Spanish sleight [slaɪt] n sleight of hand → prestidigitación f
French sleight [slaɪt] n sleight of hand → tour m de passe-passe
German sleight [slaɪt] n sleight of hand → Fingerfertigkeit f
Italian sleight [slaɪt] n sleight of hand → gioco di destrezza
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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!
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
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.
The Innocence Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
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