sleight
IPA: sɫˈaɪt
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "sleight" in Sentences
- She has sleight in making jokes.
- The operator's trick is sleight of hand.
- In fact, it was a sleight of hand and magic trick.
- Her old talents and sleight of hand remain much in evidence.
- The original referred to a "sleight" against Jamie Carragher.
- Card forcing is more to do with sleight of hand than the deck itself.
- Further, by sleight of hand, it tries to discount the controversy as a whole.
- Despite being called out on this sleight of hand, he continues the deception.
- With the produced cards, he would go into a series of sleight of hand tricks.
- At this point the magician can select the target card through sleight of hand.
- At this point, the magician can select the target card through sleight of hand.
- 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