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nounskill; dexterity. an artifice; stratagem. cunning; craft. Origin of sleight1225–75; Middle English; early Middle English slēgth<Old Norse slǣgth.See sly, -th 1Words nearby sleightsleeve valve, sleeving, sleigh, sleigh bed, sleigh bell, sleight, sleight of hand, Sleipnir, slender, slenderize, slender loris Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sleightTo posit that the war brings us closer to faith is a sleight of hand that makes fools of us all. There Are Only Atheists in Fox Holes|Michael Carson|October 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST He does the heavy lifting, and she passes it off with a sleight of hand. Welcome to Snowpiercer’s Apocalypse|Teo Bugbee|June 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST The real Mamet is an actor who became a writer and had a real sense of the criminal and the sleight of hand in American life. Broadway's Comeback Kid|Kevin Sessums|November 2, 2011|DAILY BEAST But to simply call all these feelings melancholy, Toohey argues, is to link disparate experiences by a sleight of metaphor. A Book About Boredom Is Anything But|Jeremy Axelrod|June 20, 2011|DAILY BEAST
The only sleight of hand I can detect is the fact that our hero never actually kills anyone himself. Goodfellas Turns 20|Sean Macaulay|September 21, 2010|DAILY BEAST This was a sort of sleight of hand, in the use of words; and was noticed, at the time, as "legerdemain." Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather|Charles W. Upham Many of the startling effects of sleight of hand are undoubtedly due in part to this principle. Sleight of hand counts for much, but diverting the spectator's eyes for a good deal more. Logic, Inductive and Deductive|William Minto For who by such a sleight would reach An aim, consumes the worth in speech, And sets a crimson rose to bleach. My Beautiful Lady. Nelly Dale|Thomas Woolner We should be absolutely safe from assault or sleight of hand. Search-Light Letters|Robert Grant
British Dictionary definitions for sleight
noun archaicskill; dexteritySee also sleight of hand a trick or stratagem cunning; trickery Word Origin for sleightC14: from Old Norse slægth, from slægr sly Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to sleightstratagem, deception, hoax, craft, artifice, cunning, dexterity, deftness, expertise, skill |