Definition of legerdemain in English:

legerdemain

noun ˌlɛdʒədɪˈmeɪnˈlɛdʒərdəˌmeɪn

mass noun

1Skilful use of one's hands when performing conjuring tricks.
Example sentencesExamples
- Readers are invited to imagine how Copperfield will pull off this magic coup, but we reckon it will involve a couple of balls, a cup and plenty of legerdemain.
- Much to the satisfaction of legitimate entertainers, the book also expresses respect for the art of legerdemain, which it discusses using that very term.
- There were fine nuggets of legerdemain, courtesy of the illusionist Paul Kieve.
Synonyms
sleight of hand, juggling, conjuring, magic, prestidigitation, wizardry, illusion, dexterity
rare thaumaturgy
1. 1.1 Deception; trickery.
  a classic piece of management legerdemain
  Example sentencesExamples
  What was the point of this sophisticated legerdemain with Ray's aliases?
  And the consequence of this ill-considered commitment seems to have been the introduction of various fast-track schemes, corner cutting on entry visa requirements and other acts of legerdemain.
  Convincing voter-taxpayers that they should pay for something available for free naturally requires some political legerdemain.
  Stripped to its essentials, her endeavor bestows a constitutional benediction upon the intellectual legerdemain that enables universities to practice racial discrimination.
  The target of the latter piece of legislative legerdemain is the Free Software movement itself.
  In the year since Tyco was hit with charges of accounting legerdemain, the company kept making acquisitions, though it completed fewer big ones.
  When that logic is exposed, as in this case, as intellectual legerdemain, he retreats to pitiful, pleading casuistry.
  In some circles, ethics experts are infamous for just this kind of psychological legerdemain.
  Zusi, who was not deposed for trial, denies that he ever made such threats or encouraged anyone to use accounting legerdemain to manage earnings.
  The latter is the insidious inflation dodge, a piece of legerdemain that governments have been using over centuries to take bigger and bigger bites of your property.
  Synonyms
  trickery, cunning, artfulness, craftiness, craft, wiles, chicanery, skulduggery, deceit, deception, artifice, cheating, dissimulation, double-dealing, artful argument, specious reasoning, sophistry, humbug, flimflam
  British informal jiggery-pokery
  archaic stratagem

Origin

Late Middle English: from French léger de main 'dexterous', literally 'light of hand'.

Rhymes

abstain, appertain, arcane, arraign, ascertain, attain, Bahrain, bane, blain, brain, Braine, Cain, Caine, campaign, cane, cinquain, chain, champagne, champaign, Champlain, Charmaine, chicane, chow mein, cocaine, Coleraine, Coltrane, complain, constrain, contain, crane, Dane, deign, demesne, demi-mondaine, detain, disdain, domain, domaine, drain, Duane, Dwane, Elaine, entertain, entrain, explain, fain, fane, feign, gain, Germaine, germane, grain, humane, Hussein, inane, Jain, Jane, Jermaine, Kane, La Fontaine, lain, lane, Lorraine, main, Maine, maintain, mane, mise en scène, Montaigne, moraine, mundane, obtain, ordain, Paine, pane, pertain, plain, plane, Port-of-Spain, profane, rain, Raine, refrain, reign, rein, retain, romaine, sane, Seine, Shane, Sinn Fein, skein, slain, Spain, Spillane, sprain, stain, strain, sustain, swain, terrain, thane, train, twain, Ujjain, Ukraine, underlain, urbane, vain, vane, vein, Verlaine, vicereine, wain, wane, Wayne

Definition of legerdemain in US English:

legerdemain

nounˈlɛdʒərdəˌmeɪnˈlejərdəˌmān

1Skillful use of one's hands when performing conjuring tricks.
Example sentencesExamples
- Much to the satisfaction of legitimate entertainers, the book also expresses respect for the art of legerdemain, which it discusses using that very term.
- Readers are invited to imagine how Copperfield will pull off this magic coup, but we reckon it will involve a couple of balls, a cup and plenty of legerdemain.
- There were fine nuggets of legerdemain, courtesy of the illusionist Paul Kieve.
Synonyms
sleight of hand, juggling, conjuring, magic, prestidigitation, wizardry, illusion, dexterity
1. 1.1 Deception; trickery.
  a classic piece of management legerdemain
  Example sentencesExamples
  What was the point of this sophisticated legerdemain with Ray's aliases?
  And the consequence of this ill-considered commitment seems to have been the introduction of various fast-track schemes, corner cutting on entry visa requirements and other acts of legerdemain.
  Zusi, who was not deposed for trial, denies that he ever made such threats or encouraged anyone to use accounting legerdemain to manage earnings.
  When that logic is exposed, as in this case, as intellectual legerdemain, he retreats to pitiful, pleading casuistry.
  Stripped to its essentials, her endeavor bestows a constitutional benediction upon the intellectual legerdemain that enables universities to practice racial discrimination.
  In some circles, ethics experts are infamous for just this kind of psychological legerdemain.
  Convincing voter-taxpayers that they should pay for something available for free naturally requires some political legerdemain.
  The latter is the insidious inflation dodge, a piece of legerdemain that governments have been using over centuries to take bigger and bigger bites of your property.
  The target of the latter piece of legislative legerdemain is the Free Software movement itself.
  In the year since Tyco was hit with charges of accounting legerdemain, the company kept making acquisitions, though it completed fewer big ones.
  Synonyms
  trickery, cunning, artfulness, craftiness, craft, wiles, chicanery, skulduggery, deceit, deception, artifice, cheating, dissimulation, double-dealing, artful argument, specious reasoning, sophistry, humbug, flimflam

Origin

Late Middle English: from French léger de main ‘dexterous’, literally ‘light of hand’.

单词	legerdemain
释义	Definition of legerdemain in English: legerdemain noun ˌlɛdʒədɪˈmeɪnˈlɛdʒərdəˌmeɪn mass noun 1Skilful use of one's hands when performing conjuring tricks. Example sentencesExamples Readers are invited to imagine how Copperfield will pull off this magic coup, but we reckon it will involve a couple of balls, a cup and plenty of legerdemain. Much to the satisfaction of legitimate entertainers, the book also expresses respect for the art of legerdemain, which it discusses using that very term. There were fine nuggets of legerdemain, courtesy of the illusionist Paul Kieve. Synonyms sleight of hand, juggling, conjuring, magic, prestidigitation, wizardry, illusion, dexterity rare thaumaturgy 1.1 Deception; trickery. a classic piece of management legerdemain Example sentencesExamples What was the point of this sophisticated legerdemain with Ray's aliases? And the consequence of this ill-considered commitment seems to have been the introduction of various fast-track schemes, corner cutting on entry visa requirements and other acts of legerdemain. Convincing voter-taxpayers that they should pay for something available for free naturally requires some political legerdemain. Stripped to its essentials, her endeavor bestows a constitutional benediction upon the intellectual legerdemain that enables universities to practice racial discrimination. The target of the latter piece of legislative legerdemain is the Free Software movement itself. In the year since Tyco was hit with charges of accounting legerdemain, the company kept making acquisitions, though it completed fewer big ones. When that logic is exposed, as in this case, as intellectual legerdemain, he retreats to pitiful, pleading casuistry. In some circles, ethics experts are infamous for just this kind of psychological legerdemain. Zusi, who was not deposed for trial, denies that he ever made such threats or encouraged anyone to use accounting legerdemain to manage earnings. The latter is the insidious inflation dodge, a piece of legerdemain that governments have been using over centuries to take bigger and bigger bites of your property. Synonyms trickery, cunning, artfulness, craftiness, craft, wiles, chicanery, skulduggery, deceit, deception, artifice, cheating, dissimulation, double-dealing, artful argument, specious reasoning, sophistry, humbug, flimflam British informal jiggery-pokery archaic stratagem Origin Late Middle English: from French léger de main 'dexterous', literally 'light of hand'. Rhymes abstain, appertain, arcane, arraign, ascertain, attain, Bahrain, bane, blain, brain, Braine, Cain, Caine, campaign, cane, cinquain, chain, champagne, champaign, Champlain, Charmaine, chicane, chow mein, cocaine, Coleraine, Coltrane, complain, constrain, contain, crane, Dane, deign, demesne, demi-mondaine, detain, disdain, domain, domaine, drain, Duane, Dwane, Elaine, entertain, entrain, explain, fain, fane, feign, gain, Germaine, germane, grain, humane, Hussein, inane, Jain, Jane, Jermaine, Kane, La Fontaine, lain, lane, Lorraine, main, Maine, maintain, mane, mise en scène, Montaigne, moraine, mundane, obtain, ordain, Paine, pane, pertain, plain, plane, Port-of-Spain, profane, rain, Raine, refrain, reign, rein, retain, romaine, sane, Seine, Shane, Sinn Fein, skein, slain, Spain, Spillane, sprain, stain, strain, sustain, swain, terrain, thane, train, twain, Ujjain, Ukraine, underlain, urbane, vain, vane, vein, Verlaine, vicereine, wain, wane, Wayne Definition of legerdemain in US English: legerdemain nounˈlɛdʒərdəˌmeɪnˈlejərdəˌmān 1Skillful use of one's hands when performing conjuring tricks. Example sentencesExamples Much to the satisfaction of legitimate entertainers, the book also expresses respect for the art of legerdemain, which it discusses using that very term. Readers are invited to imagine how Copperfield will pull off this magic coup, but we reckon it will involve a couple of balls, a cup and plenty of legerdemain. There were fine nuggets of legerdemain, courtesy of the illusionist Paul Kieve. Synonyms sleight of hand, juggling, conjuring, magic, prestidigitation, wizardry, illusion, dexterity 1.1 Deception; trickery. a classic piece of management legerdemain Example sentencesExamples What was the point of this sophisticated legerdemain with Ray's aliases? And the consequence of this ill-considered commitment seems to have been the introduction of various fast-track schemes, corner cutting on entry visa requirements and other acts of legerdemain. Zusi, who was not deposed for trial, denies that he ever made such threats or encouraged anyone to use accounting legerdemain to manage earnings. When that logic is exposed, as in this case, as intellectual legerdemain, he retreats to pitiful, pleading casuistry. Stripped to its essentials, her endeavor bestows a constitutional benediction upon the intellectual legerdemain that enables universities to practice racial discrimination. In some circles, ethics experts are infamous for just this kind of psychological legerdemain. Convincing voter-taxpayers that they should pay for something available for free naturally requires some political legerdemain. The latter is the insidious inflation dodge, a piece of legerdemain that governments have been using over centuries to take bigger and bigger bites of your property. The target of the latter piece of legislative legerdemain is the Free Software movement itself. In the year since Tyco was hit with charges of accounting legerdemain, the company kept making acquisitions, though it completed fewer big ones. Synonyms trickery, cunning, artfulness, craftiness, craft, wiles, chicanery, skulduggery, deceit, deception, artifice, cheating, dissimulation, double-dealing, artful argument, specious reasoning, sophistry, humbug, flimflam Origin Late Middle English: from French léger de main ‘dexterous’, literally ‘light of hand’.
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