Sleight
[slait]
Definition
(n.) Cunning; craft; artful practice.
(n.) An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
(n.) Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.
Editor: Pratt
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Sly artifice, artful trick.[2]. Adroitness, dexterity, manœuvring, dexterous management.
Checker: Olga
Definition
n. cunning: dexterity: an artful trick.—n. Sleight′-of-hand legerdemain.
Checker: Seymour
Examples
- The associate in this was a man whom he had found endeavoring to make electrical apparatus for sleight-of-hand performances. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- You don't know my skill in sleight of hand; I might practise as a conjuror if I liked. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Editor: Mervin