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sleight

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of sleight

1 a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end

  • must have employed some sophisticated sleight to con that wary couple out of their money
Synonyms of sleight

artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, knack, play, ploy, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, stratagem, trick, wile
Words Related to sleight

bluff, end run, feint

cheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery

fraud, gaff, hoax, sham, swindle

blind, front, smoke screen
Phrases Synonymous with sleight

sleight of hand

2 mental skill or quickness

  • a brilliant new theory that pays tribute to his remarkable sleight of mind
Synonyms of sleight

adroitness, cleverness, dexterity, finesse
Words Related to sleight

ability, aptitude, capability, capacity, faculty, knack, prowess, talent

competence, competency, efficiency, expertise, know-how, proficiency

ingeniousness, ingenuity, resourcefulness

savvy, sharpness, shrewdness

artfulness, artifice, caginess (also cageyness), canniness, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, deviousness, foxiness, guile, slickness, slyness, sneakiness, subtleness, wiliness
Near Antonyms of sleight

inadequacy, incompetence, incompetency, ineptitude, ineptness

brainlessness, denseness, density, doltishness, dopiness, dullness (also dulness), dumbness, fatuity, foolishness, mindlessness, obtuseness, senselessness, simpleness, slowness, stupidity, stupidness, witlessness

3 ease and grace in physical activity

  • a muscle-bound weight lifter known more for his might than his sleight
Synonyms of sleight

agility, deftness, dexterity, nimbleness, spryness
Words Related to sleight

coordination

flexibility, gracefulness, limberness, litheness, loose-jointedness, suppleness

handiness, sure-handedness

sure-footedness

adeptness, adroitness, finesse, prowess
Near Antonyms of sleight

disability, inability, incapability, incapacity

debilitation, disablement, impairment, incapacitation

unhandiness
Antonyms of sleight

awkwardness, clumsiness, gaucheness, gawkiness, gawkishness, gracelessness, ham-handedness, heavy-handedness, klutziness, ungainliness

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