legerdemain

nounsleight of hand

Synonyms for legerdemain

noun sleight of hand

Antonyms for legerdemain

Word Origin & History

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).

Example Sentences for legerdemain

Astonishing feats of preparation were consummated as if by legerdemain.

Priests, however, tolerate no rivals, and permit no legerdemain but their own.

You would do, by a piece of legerdemain, what you have not the courage to attempt openly.

Winchester lay the fewest of miles away, but somewhere there was legerdemain.

I admire it as a splendid piece of legerdemain; but it expresses nothing.

A correspondence school course in legerdemain, Steven explained.

A touch of legerdemain and my sword has passed into my left hand.

This title swings him into full view, stripped of all deception and legerdemain.

Conjuror has since become a name for a professor of legerdemain or sleight-of-hand.

Legerdemain had scared him some and made him both suspicious and wary.

legerdemain

Synonyms for legerdemain

Antonyms for legerdemain

dirty pool

hocus-pocus

juggling

magic

prestidigitation

legerdemain

Synonyms for legerdemain

Antonyms for legerdemain

More words related to legerdemain

deception

dirty pool

hocus-pocus

juggling

magic

prestidigitation