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legerdemain

/lej-er-duh-meyn/US // ˌlɛdʒ ər dəˈmeɪn //UK // (ˌlɛdʒədəˈmeɪn) //

骗局,诡计多端,骗术,诡计

Related Words

chicanery诡计多端,狡诈,狡猾,巧取豪夺deception诈骗,欺骗,欺骗行为,欺骗性trickery花招,伎俩,诡计,诡计多端artfulness艺术性,工艺性,美术,艺人craftiness工艺性,狡猾性,狡猾,狡诈hocus-pocus变戏法,骗人,骗人的东西,骗局manipulation操纵,操控,操作,操纵性deceit骗术,骗局,欺骗,骗人cunning狡猾的,狡猾,狡猾的人,狡诈conjuring变戏法,魔术,幻术,魔法

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : sleight of hand.
    • : trickery; deception.
    • : any artful trick.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounsleight of hand
Synonyms
artfulness艺术性,工艺性,美术,艺人chicanery诡计多端,狡诈,狡猾,巧取豪夺conjuring变戏法,魔术,幻术,魔法craftiness工艺性,狡猾性,狡猾,狡诈cunning狡猾的,狡猾,狡猾的人,狡诈deceit骗术,骗局,欺骗,骗人deception诈骗,欺骗,欺骗行为,欺骗性hocus-pocus变戏法,骗人,骗人的东西,骗局manipulation操纵,操控,操作,操纵性trickery花招,伎俩,诡计,诡计多端

Examples

  • The ad world knows it needs to change, it’s facing calls to change, it says it’s going to change, but then in the perfect act of legerdemain, it does … absolutely nothing.

  • People magazine called them the “Liberaces of legerdemain,” after the outrageously overdressed Las Vegas star.

  • One act of legislative legerdemain was succeeded by another.

  • They are impossible of explanation on any hypothesis calculated to reduce his work to the vulgar plane of legerdemain.

  • Professor Stanyon is one of the most prolific as well as one of the cleverest living writers, on the subject of legerdemain.

  • The horrible act of Poisoning and all the tricks and conveyances of juggling and legerdemain are fully deciphered.

  • "Of the marvellous art of legerdemain, Monsieur Arbuthnot," interrupted the Chevalier eagerly.

  • The Alchemist and the Rosicrucian are no more, and of all their race, the professor of Legerdemain alone survives.

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