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Meanings of sleight in English

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Spanish
pericia

Adroitness in using the hands.

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        Usage of sleight in English
        1
        The new Apple TV could be Steve Jobs' best sleight-of-hand trick yet.
        Wired
        2
        The deed, in the circumstances, assumed the appearance of a sleight-of-hand trick.
        The Teeth of the Tiger
        3
        Instead, he typically solved his problems with sleight of hand or mechanics.
        Hiding the Elephant
        4
        I've used pretty women to distract attention from my sleight of hand.
        Shadow zone
        5
        The act of putting something into digital notation via sleight of hand.
        The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000
        6
        This sleight-of-hand seemed to the boy the most astounding evidence of art.
        Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)
        7
        He didn't tell them about the sleight of hand with the sources.
        The bricklayer
        8
        This is no simple school of sleight of hand and card tricks.
        James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
        9
        Nature was a grand one for sleight of hand and magic tricks.
        The Fireman
        10
        They told Eisenhower that they could overthrow Castro by sleight of hand.
        Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
        11
        Through sleight of hand, Sedaris artfully reveals as much as he conceals.
        Wired
        12
        This, in a clever sleight of hand, is Potter as field vole.
        The Guardian
        13
        What a sleight of hand marriage was, how fraudulent the social world!
        The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
        14
        Conjuration, sleight of hand, magic, witchcraft, were the subjects of the evening.
        Cranford
        15
        She believed she had deceived him, but he had noted her sleight-of-hand.
        When God Laughs, and Other Stories
        16
        That table is where they played their little sleight-of-hand business; and oh!
        Sunrise
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        Translations for sleight
        Sleight through the time
        Sleight across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common
        United States of America
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