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Synonyms for sleight

Grammar : Noun
Spell : slahyt
Phonetic Transcription : slaɪt

Définition of sleight

Origin :
  • "cunning," early 14c. alteration of sleahthe (c.1200), from Old Norse sloegð "cleverness, cunning, slyness," from sloegr (see sly). Meaning "skill, cleverness, dexterity" is from late 14c. Meaning "feat or trick requiring quickness and nimbleness of the hands" is from 1590s. Term sleight of hand is attested from c.1400.
  • noun trick
  • noun ability
Example sentences :
  • I got it out of him, by sleight of hand—where we had met before.
  • Extract from : « The Coast of Chance » by Esther Chamberlain
  • That was one of the miracles we asked you the sleight of, and are you going to say nothing about that?
  • Extract from : « Imaginary Interviews » by W. D. Howells
  • The treatises on sleight of hand give the method of executing this trick.
  • Extract from : « The Sharper Detected and Exposed » by Jean-Eugne Robert-Houdin
  • Of course, there are tricks of sleight of hand by which the conclusion is evaded.
  • Extract from : « 'I Believe' and other essays » by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
  • Yet in these seeming miracles there is nothing of "black art" or sleight of hand.
  • Extract from : « History of California » by Helen Elliott Bandini
  • We got out of that nasty corner by sleight of hand, but not your sleight of hand, pasha.
  • Extract from : « The Weavers, Complete » by Gilbert Parker
  • How do the jury know that a sleight of hand had not changed the note at Coffin's?
  • Extract from : « Select Speeches of Daniel Webster » by Daniel Webster
  • “Sounds to me like a sleight of hand performer,” murmured Bess.
  • Extract from : « The Motor Girls in the Mountains » by Margaret Penrose
  • Lindstrom fell for her yarn that it was sleight of hand—but it was HC.
  • Extract from : « Modus Vivendi » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • We should be absolutely safe from assault or sleight of hand.
  • Extract from : « Search-Light Letters » by Robert Grant

Antonyms for sleight

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