Synonyms for legerdemain

Grammar : Noun

Spell : lej-er-duh-meyn

Phonetic Transcription : ˌlɛdʒ ər dəˈmeɪn

Définition of legerdemain

Origin : early 15c., "conjuring tricks," from Middle French léger de main "quick of hand," literally "light of hand," from léger "light" in weight (from Latin levis "light;" see lever) + main "hand" (from Latin manus; see manual).

noun sleight of hand

Example sentences :

Astonishing feats of preparation were consummated as if by legerdemain.
Extract from : « Nobody » by Louis Joseph Vance

Priests, however, tolerate no rivals, and permit no legerdemain but their own.
Extract from : « Gerald Fitzgerald » by Charles James Lever

You would do, by a piece of legerdemain, what you have not the courage to attempt openly.
Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever

Winchester lay the fewest of miles away, but somewhere there was legerdemain.
Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston

I admire it as a splendid piece of legerdemain; but it expresses nothing.
Extract from : « Gryll Grange » by Thomas Love Peacock

A correspondence school course in legerdemain, Steven explained.
Extract from : « Under Cover » by Roi Cooper Megrue

A touch of legerdemain and my sword has passed into my left hand.
Extract from : « 'Neath Verdun, August-October, 1914 » by Maurice Genevoix

This title swings him into full view, stripped of all deception and legerdemain.
Extract from : « Is the Devil a Myth? » by C. F. Wimberly

Conjuror has since become a name for a professor of legerdemain or sleight-of-hand.
Extract from : « Lancashire Folk-lore » by John Harland

Legerdemain had scared him some and made him both suspicious and wary.
Extract from : « Prairie Gold » by Various

Antonyms for legerdemain

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