Sleight
31sleight of hand — Synonyms and related words: Prospero, airiness, appearance, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, blind, bluff, bosey, catch, chicanery, chouse, conjuration, curve, curve ball, delusiveness, design, device, dirty deal, dirty trick, dodge,… …
32sleight of hand — 1. ways of deceiving people which you need skill to do. Some mathematical sleight of hand was required to make the figures add up. 2. quick, clever movements of your hands, especially when performing magic tricks. With impressive sleight of hand… …
33sleight of hand — not slight. Sleight, meaning dexterity or de ceptiveness, comes from the Old Norse sloedgh, and slight, meaning slender or frail, comes from the Old Norse slettr, but they have nothing else in common except their pronunciations …
34sleight of hand — manual dexterity, typically in performing conjuring tricks. → sleight …
35sleight of hand — UK [ˌslaɪt əv ˈhænd] / US noun [singular/uncountable] a) clever and quick use of your hands, especially when performing a magic trick b) clever and slightly dishonest behaviour used for achieving something political sleight of hand …
36sleight — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse slœgth, from slœgr sly more at sly Date: 14th century 1. deceitful craftiness; also stratagem 2. dexterity, skill …
37sleight — /sluyt/, n. 1. skill; dexterity. 2. an artifice; stratagem. 3. cunning; craft. [1225 75; ME; early ME slegth < ON slaegth. See SLY, TH1] * * * …
38sleight — noun a) Cunning; craft; artful practice. b) An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation …
39sleight — Mawdesley Glossary a slight on a nerson s character, sleihty shoddy work …
40sleight — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A trick] Syn. artifice, craft, deception, hoax; see cunning , trick 1 . 2. [Ability] Syn. skill, dexterity, expertise; see ability 1 , 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Skillfulness in the use of the hands or body:… …
