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legerdemain

[ lej-er-duh-meyn ]

noun

  1. sleight of hand.
  2. any artful trick.


legerdemain

/ ËŒ±ôÉ›»åÏôÉ™»åəˈ³¾±ðɪ²Ô /

noun

  1. another name for sleight of hand
  2. cunning deception or trickery
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Derived Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of legerdemain1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English legerdemeyn, lygarde de mayne “skill in conjuring, sleight of hand,†from Middle French léger de main “nimble, skillful,†literally “light of hand†(unrecorded)
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of legerdemain1

C15: from Old French: light of hand
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Example Sentences

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Serious people should know what an older version of antisemitic denialism was all about: a steady stream of factual nitpicks, logical inversions and rhetorical legerdemain meant to obfuscate and deny the greatest crime in history.

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The filmmakers indulge in some legerdemain, having the real-life participants recount the events as if certain facts were not already in the open at the time of the interviews.

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As I’ve pointed out before, accounts of the penuriousness of life on such an income invariably involve financial legerdemain.

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Poirot reacts to all this legerdemain with a disbelieving scowl, even when he can’t fully explain the hair-raising tricks his eyes and ears are playing on him.

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Wade always struck me as a pretty sketchy act of constitutional legerdemain.

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