legerdemain
Example Sentences
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Mr. Barnes uses his neatly attired Englishness as camouflage for narrative experimentation and legerdemain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
Which name do you call a professional who practices legerdemain?
From Slate • Jan. 22, 2024
That focus leaves Picasso in slight shadow, gives Braque his fair due and crowns a new champion of media monkey business and painterly legerdemain.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2022
Landrieu, however, defends at least some of this semantic legerdemain.
From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2022
His door stood open to the morning, and he hummed under his breath while his right hand practiced legerdemain.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
