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legerdemain

[ lej-er-duh-meyn ]

noun

  1. sleight of hand.
  2. any artful trick.


legerdemain

/ 藢濒蓻诲萧蓹诲蓹藞尘别瑟苍 /

noun

  1. another name for sleight of hand
  2. cunning deception or trickery
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藢濒别驳别谤诲别藞尘补颈苍颈蝉迟, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 濒别驳顎卐谤路诲别路尘补颈苍顎僫蝉迟 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of legerdemain1

First recorded in 1400鈥50; late Middle English legerdemeyn, lygarde de mayne 鈥渟kill in conjuring, sleight of hand,鈥 from Middle French l茅ger de main 鈥渘imble, skillful,鈥 literally 鈥渓ight of hand鈥 (unrecorded)
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of legerdemain1

C15: from Old French: light of hand
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Serious people should know what an older version of antisemitic denialism was all about: a steady stream of factual nitpicks, logical inversions and rhetorical legerdemain meant to obfuscate and deny the greatest crime in history.

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The filmmakers indulge in some legerdemain, having the real-life participants recount the events as if certain facts were not already in the open at the time of the interviews.

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As I鈥檝e pointed out before, accounts of the penuriousness of life on such an income invariably involve financial legerdemain.

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Poirot reacts to all this legerdemain with a disbelieving scowl, even when he can鈥檛 fully explain the hair-raising tricks his eyes and ears are playing on him.

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Wade always struck me as a pretty sketchy act of constitutional legerdemain.

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