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Prestidigitation Pres Ti Dij I Tey Shuhn Noun Sleight Hand Legerdemain Deceitfulness Trickery

Front prestidigitation \pres-ti-dij-i-tey-shuhn\
Back noun
1. A sleight of hand; legerdemain.
2. Deceitfulness, trickery.

[From French prestidigitation (conjuring), from preste (nimble) + Latin digitus (finger).]

"It is, of course, a nonsense number, a statistical prestidigitation." - Polly Toynbee; Is There Pensions Apartheid?; The Guardian (London, UK); Jul 4, 2009. 

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