Prestidigitation refers to sleight of hand or legerdemain, and can also mean deceitfulness or trickery.
Prestidigitation refers to sleight of hand or legerdemain, and can also mean deceitfulness or trickery.
Front | prestidigitation \pres-ti-dij-i-tey-shuhn\ |
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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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