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legerdemainnoun the art or skill of performing tricks or illusions for entertainmentthe illusionist's show is an entertaining blend of legerdemain and over-the-top showmanship conjuring, hocus-pocus, magic, prestidigitation deception, deceptiveness, trickery sleight of hand the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an endthe reduction of the deficit is due in part to financial legerdemain that masks the true costs of running the government artifice, chicane, chicanery, gamesmanship, hanky-panky, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, skulduggery(or skullduggery), subterfuge, trickery, wile artfulness, caginess(also cageyness), craftiness, cunning, deviousness, foxiness, oiliness, shadiness, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, treachery, underhandedness, wilinesscrookedness, crookery, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, guile, guilefulness, hypocrisy, insincerityfakery, humbuggery, imposture, quackerydirty pool, dirty tricksdesign, plotting, scheming, secrecy, stealth artlessness, forthrightness, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sinceritycandidness, candor, directness, openness, plainness, plainspokenness in the 15th century |