Meaning of Legerdemain | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Sleight of hand; "magic" trickery.
   uncountable, usually
2. A show of skill or deceitful ability.
   broadly, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“For he in slights and jugling feates did flow⟳, / And of legierdemayne the mysteries did know⟳.”

“[…] A deliberate man with infinite resources of patience, he was content to progress⟳ by easy stages toward the millennium. Some private legerdemain must have⟳ reconciled him to the "practical" methods that were employed. […]”

“Chief Justice Roberts does more or less the same thing in dissent: He practices intentions-and-expectations originalism while randomly sprinkling some public-meaning originalism fairy dust over his description of his enterprise, perhaps in the subconscious hope⟳ that no one will notice⟳ the legerdemain.”

“Certainly, that they are to this day so rife in Italy and Spain, and so scant in Britain, is a shrewd ground to apprehend Legerdemain, and forgery, in the accounts we get⟳ of their later Saints.”

“Most of the time, no one really seems to notice⟳ that presentist legerdemain, perhaps because so few of us actually remember⟳ the experience⟳ of 2020 all that clearly and are clinging to hastily imposed narratives instead.”

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