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sleightnoun a clever often underhanded means to achieve an endmust have employed some sophisticated sleight to con that wary couple out of their money artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, knack, play, ploy, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, stratagem, trick, wile bluff, end run, feintcheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery(or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickeryfraud, gaff, hoax, sham, swindleblind, front, smoke screen sleight of hand mental skill or quicknessa brilliant new theory that pays tribute to his remarkable sleight of mind adroitness, cleverness, dexterity, finesse ability, aptitude, capability, capacity, faculty, knack, prowess, talentcompetence, competency, efficiency, expertise, know-how, proficiencyingeniousness, ingenuity, resourcefulnesssavvy, sharpness, shrewdnessartfulness, artifice, caginess(also cageyness), canniness, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, deviousness, foxiness, guile, slickness, slyness, sneakiness, subtleness, wiliness inadequacy, incompetence, incompetency, ineptitude, ineptnessbrainlessness, denseness, density, doltishness, dopiness, dullness(also dulness), dumbness, fatuity, foolishness, mindlessness, obtuseness, senselessness, simpleness, slowness, stupidity, stupidness, witlessness ease and grace in physical activitya muscle-bound weight lifter known more for his might than his sleight agility, deftness, dexterity, nimbleness, spryness coordinationflexibility, gracefulness, limberness, litheness, loose-jointedness, supplenesshandiness, sure-handednesssure-footednessadeptness, adroitness, finesse, prowess awkwardness, clumsiness, gaucheness, gawkiness, gawkishness, gracelessness, ham-handedness, heavy-handedness, klutziness, ungainliness disability, inability, incapability, incapacitydebilitation, disablement, impairment, incapacitationunhandiness in the 14th century |