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legerdemain
noun as in sleight of hand
Example Sentences
The ad world knows it needs to change, it’s facing calls to change, it says it’s going to change, but then in the perfect act of legerdemain, it does … absolutely nothing.
People magazine called them the “Liberaces of legerdemain,” after the outrageously overdressed Las Vegas star.
One act of legislative legerdemain was succeeded by another.
They are impossible of explanation on any hypothesis calculated to reduce his work to the vulgar plane of legerdemain.
Professor Stanyon is one of the most prolific as well as one of the cleverest living writers, on the subject of legerdemain.
The horrible act of Poisoning and all the tricks and conveyances of juggling and legerdemain are fully deciphered.
"Of the marvellous art of legerdemain, Monsieur Arbuthnot," interrupted the Chevalier eagerly.
The Alchemist and the Rosicrucian are no more, and of all their race, the professor of Legerdemain alone survives.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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