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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