Synonyms for sleight
slaɪtsleight

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1. dexterity, manual dexterity, sleightnoun

   adroitness in using the hands

   Synonyms:
   manual dexterity, dexterity

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1. • Adeptness

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1. sleightnoun

   Synonyms:
   sly artifice, artful trick

2. sleightnoun

   Synonyms:
   adroitness, dexterity, manœuvring, dexterous management

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1. List of paraphrases for "sleight":

   stratagem, ploy

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1. Kate Bedingfield:

   It's impossible to pay for Medicare for All without middle-class tax increases, to accomplish this sleight of hand, her proposal dramatically understates its cost, overstates its savings, inflates the revenue, and pretends that an employer payroll tax increase is something else.

2. Justin Amash:

   Barr's misrepresentations are significant but often subtle, frequently taking the form of sleight-of-hand qualifications or logical fallacies, which Attorney General Barr hopes people will not notice.

3. Katie Hobbs:

   This statutory sleight of hand is set to expire at the end of my term, leaving no doubt that this was prompted by my efforts to protect the freedom to vote and because they did not like the outcome of the Presidential Election.

4. Brigitte Amiri:

   The state's bureaucratic sleight of hand is fooling no one. This is an attempt to ban abortion in Kentucky, plain and simple. We are fighting to keep this from happening.

5. Brad Adams:

   Thailand's friends abroad should not be fooled by this obvious sleight of hand by the junta leader to replace martial law with a constitutional provision that effectively provides unlimited and unaccountable powers.