sleight

IPA: sɫˈaɪt

Cunning; craft; artful practice.
(countable) An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.
A surname.

Examples of "sleight" in Sentences

The original referred to a "sleight" against Jamie Carragher.
But the same kind of sleight-of-hand is occurring here as with the climate debate.
If these wars can only be funded through this kind of sleight of hand, they maybe shouldn't be funded at all.
You could populate an interesting subcategory of composers with a particular flair for that kind of sleight-of-hand.
Nothing to do with the kind of sleight-of-hand obfuscation you're trying to pull here, equating "all other Democrats" with Lieberman.
It is a food label sleight-of-hand that Bruce Silverglade of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit advocacy group, calls a "rip-off" for consumers.
Another time, they play at the edge of the stage and execute a kind of sleight of body, marching off stage, quickly changing clothes before marching back on in another guise, repeating this several times in a matter of seconds or minutes.
(Spoken) -- Hallo, (said the clown, scrambling up again, and scratching his broken head,) to be sure I have heard of sleight-of-hand, hocus-pocus and sich like; but by gum this here be a new manouvre called sleight of legs; however as no boanes be broken between us, I'll endeavour to make use on 'em once more in following the game in view: so here goes, with a