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词汇 legerdemain
释义 legerdemain
noun[ U ]
 formaluk /ˌledʒ.ə.dəˈmeɪn/ us /ˌledʒ.ɚ.dəˈmeɪn/
skilful hiding of the truth in order to trick people: 花招,诡计,欺骗
The survey suggests nearly half the electorate believes the president won through electoral legerdemain. 调查显示,近一半选民认为总统是通过欺骗赢得大选的。
skilful tricks done as part of a performance: 变戏法表演
There are traditional acts of legerdemain with bright scarves and floating balls.有传统的变戏法表演,用的是鲜艳的围巾和漂浮球。
Workers staged a 24-hour strike to denounce what they characterize as official legerdemain with inflation data.
It's a supreme bit of architectural legerdemain: a curving tower doing what should be, for a building, the impossible.
He cuts her hair on stage with a little stage legerdemain.
Mediums were made to insert their hands in shoeboxes during seances, to prevent any sly legerdemain.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Sly & devious
artful
artfully
artfulness
backdoor
calculating
cunningly
devious
deviously
deviousness
disingenuous
ducking
guile
guileful
guilefully
Machiavellian
Machiavellianism
tricky
underhand
weaselly
wily

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Magic

Synonym


sleight of hand

Examples of legerdemain


legerdemain
I see it as a case of philosophical legerdemain.
However, in his review he is concealing a little - applying legerdemain - with regard to the sheep and goatmeat report.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Is this political disquisition or the first stage in a trick of legerdemain?
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To encourage local authorities to take a particular action by using the formula in this way is a piece of legerdemain.
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In truth, some oratorical legerdemain was called for.
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Therefore, some people say let us have a little legerdemain, a little conjuring, and we shall get it back.
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We have had fascinating dissertations on all the mathematical legerdemain which might be employed in order to arrive at certain solutions.
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We know very well that it is by a clerical legerdemain that £380,000 has disappeared from view.
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I will put a perfectly simple point and that is, by what legerdemain does a certain portion of a surplus become taxable?
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Indeed, they have managed that piece of political legerdemain quite neatly.
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Then there was another little legerdemain.
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No economic legerdemain can reduce that fact.
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There was no legerdemain and no concealment.
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When they have said that they have, they reminded me of the cheap hucksters who induce unsuspecting housewives to sign contracts for goods by legerdemain, concealing the small print.
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He turns the problems of legerdemain into a happy pastime and entertaining half-hour.
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