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1. • • Kennedy’s feat of legal legerdemain means that the Supreme Court has punted on deciding whether anti-discrimination laws that protect gay Americans must yield to a business owner’s religious tenets.
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   The meaning of LEGERDEMAIN is sleight of hand. How to use legerdemain in a sentence. Did you know?

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   What does legerdemain mean?

   • (That term for dexterity or skill in using one's hands makes use of sleight, an old word from Middle English that derives from an Old Norse word meaning "sly.") In modern times, a feat of legerdemain can even be accomplished without using your hands, as in, for example, "an impressive bit of financial legerdemain."

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   What is legerdemain & how does it work?

   • Legerdemain is a skill line available to all players. It becomes available once you successfully pickpocket an NPC, steal an item or pick a lock. Legerdemain abilities focus on improving your ability to steal and fence items as part of the Justice System. Passive abilities are active all the time. Reduces the cost of Sneak by 10 %.

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   What does Leger de main mean?

   • In Middle French, folks who were clever enough to fool others with fast-fingered illusions were described as leger de main, literally "light of hand." English speakers condensed that phrase into a noun when they borrowed it in the 15th century and began using it as an alternative to the older sleight of hand.

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   Is there legerdemain and concealment?

   • There was no legerdemain and no concealment. 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. He turns the problems of legerdemain into a happy pastime and entertaining half-hour.

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   LEGERDEMAIN definition: 1. skilful hiding of the truth in order to trick people: 2. skilful tricks done as part of a…. Learn more.

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   There are six meanings listed in OED's entry for the word legerdemain, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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   legerdemain. noun. 1. sleight of hand, prestidigitation the kind of legerdemain you'd expect from a magician. 2. deception, manoeuvring, manipulation, cunning, artifice, trickery, subterfuge, feint, contrivance, chicanery, hocus-pocus, craftiness, artfulness, footwork (informal) financial and legal legerdemain.

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   Legerdemain definition: sleight of hand.. See examples of LEGERDEMAIN used in a sentence.

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   legerdemain meaning, definition, what is legerdemain: when you deceive people cleverly: Learn more.

9. www.collinsdictionary.com › english › legerdemainDefinition of 'legerdemain' - Collins Online Dictionary

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   1. sleight of hand. 2. trickery; deception. 3. any artful trick. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Modified entries © 2019 by Penguin Random House LLC and HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Derived forms. legerdemainist. noun. Word origin. [1400–50; late ME legerdemeyn, lygarde de mayne ‹ MF: lit., light of hand]