Synonyms for sleight of hand
sleight of hand

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1. sleight of handnoun

   Synonyms:
   legerdemain, prestidigitation

2. sleight of handnoun

   The required digital dexterity behind magic tricks and illusions.

   Synonyms:
   legerdemain, prestidigitation

3. sleight of handnoun

   A performance of such skill.

   Synonyms:
   prestidigitation, legerdemain

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1. prestidigitation, sleight of handnoun

   manual dexterity in the execution of tricks

   Synonyms:
   prestidigitation

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1. • Magic Trick

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1. sleight of hand

   Synonyms:
   legerdemain, hocus-pocus, jugglery

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1. sleight of hand

   Synonyms:
   prestidigitation, jugglery, legerdemain, magic, conjury

   Associated words:
   prestidigitator, juggler, conjurer, magician, legerdemamist

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1. Kate Bedingfield:

   It's impossible to pay for Medicare for All without middle-class tax increases, to accomplish this sleight of hand, her proposal dramatically understates its cost, overstates its savings, inflates the revenue, and pretends that an employer payroll tax increase is something else.

2. Brad Adams:

   Thailand's friends abroad should not be fooled by this obvious sleight of hand by the junta leader to replace martial law with a constitutional provision that effectively provides unlimited and unaccountable powers.

3. Brigitte Amiri:

   The state's bureaucratic sleight of hand is fooling no one. This is an attempt to ban abortion in Kentucky, plain and simple. We are fighting to keep this from happening.

4. Justin Amash:

   Barr's misrepresentations are significant but often subtle, frequently taking the form of sleight-of-hand qualifications or logical fallacies, which Attorney General Barr hopes people will not notice.

5. Katie Hobbs:

   This statutory sleight of hand is set to expire at the end of my term, leaving no doubt that this was prompted by my efforts to protect the freedom to vote and because they did not like the outcome of the Presidential Election.