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legerdemain::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
| Type of | performance |
| Has types | card trick, prestidigitation, sleight of hand |
Examples of legerdemain
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Legerdemain of this sort is the special talent of 29-year-old Joyce Carol Oates.
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Not really sure what that piece of statistical legerdemain is trying to tell us.
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Not surprisingly this bit of financing legerdemain wasn't a Dem talking point.
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To pull off this piece of legerdemain, Brown attached the idea to the budget.
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Under all the mysterioso legerdemain, he was the Shakespeare of rhetorical bullying.
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The endorsement may well have been sincere, but some suspected legerdemain.
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It's a provocative premise, but it wants some legerdemain and a third act.
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Novels that rise above genre conventions, however, require the author's own legerdemain.
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For all his soft-shoeing subtlety, Bush is still a long way from Clintonesque legerdemain.
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- Magic trick: an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- Sleight of hand, also known as prestidigitation ("quick fingers") or legerdemain, is the set of techniques used by a magician (or card sharp) to manipulate objects such as cards and coins secretly.
- Sleight of hand; "magic" trickery; A show of skill or deceitful ability
- To dream of practising legerdemain, or seeing others doing so, signifies you will be placed in a position where your energy and power of planning will be called into strenuous play to extricate yourself.
- (n.) deception, slight-of-hand (Smuggling the French plants through customs by claiming that they were fake was a remarkable bit of legerdemain.)
- The main book in which a magician keeps financial records.
