Legerdemain Mnemonic
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legerdemain
legerdemain
/ˌlɛdʒ.ə.dɨˈmeɪn/
prestidigitation
sleight of hand
Examples
- It was a cute bit of political legerdemain.
- Audiences appreciate a bit of verbal legerdemain.
- The latter do not always require legerdemain for their performance.
- From that point, it is electronic legerdemain through telephone lines and websites.
- In a baffling act of legal legerdemain, the Supreme Court barely upheld it.
- It smacked of something old, something traditional, something unclouded by legerdemain and subterfuge.
- Mr. Lhota, for all his legerdemain as budget director and deputy mayor, was a gleeful saber wielder.
- Comparing Sekunjalo to another company is simply legerdemain intended to mask a blatant attack on the company and its chairman.
- We're still waiting to see what legerdemain he'll come up with to pay for the new Tappan Zee.
- One can only assume that he believed that he could get away with this legerdemain before a complacent and deferential media.
an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
noun
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"Leger + Domain. The magician's skillful hand tricks rule his special realm."
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