legerdemain

Serious people should know what an older version of antisemitic denialism was all about: a steady stream of factual nitpicks, logical inversions and rhetorical legerdemain meant to obfuscate and deny the greatest crime in history.

The filmmakers indulge in some legerdemain, having the real-life participants recount the events as if certain facts were not already in the open at the time of the interviews.

As I’ve pointed out before, accounts of the penuriousness of life on such an income invariably involve financial legerdemain.

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.

Wade always struck me as a pretty sketchy act of constitutional legerdemain.