legerdemain

Example Sentences

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Mr. Barnes uses his neatly attired Englishness as camouflage for narrative experimentation and legerdemain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Poirot reacts to all this legerdemain with a disbelieving scowl, even when he can’t fully explain the hair-raising tricks his eyes and ears are playing on him.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2023

Landrieu, however, defends at least some of this semantic legerdemain.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2022

Bradley’s linguistic legerdemain totally changed both the amendment’s meaning and its potential as a means for the federal government to protect Black voters.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2021

It is a branch of legerdemain, but it has to be closely studied to gain perfection.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock