Definitions for legerdemain

legerdemain leg·er·de·main

Spelling: [lej-er-duh-meyn]
IPA: /ˌlɛdʒ ər dəˈmeɪn/

Legerdemain is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 1029 anagrams from letters in legerdemain (adeeegilmnr).

Definitions for legerdemain

noun

  1. sleight of hand.
  2. trickery; deception.
  3. any artful trick.

Origin of legerdemain

1400-50; late Middle English legerdemeyn, lygarde de mayne Middle French: literally, light of hand

Examples for legerdemain

This title swings him into full view, stripped of all deception and legerdemain.

Priests, however, tolerate no rivals, and permit no legerdemain but their own.

A correspondence school course in legerdemain, Steven explained.

A touch of legerdemain and my sword has passed into my left hand.

legerdemain had scared him some and made him both suspicious and wary.

You would do, by a piece of legerdemain, what you have not the courage to attempt openly.

I admire it as a splendid piece of legerdemain; but it expresses nothing.

Winchester lay the fewest of miles away, but somewhere there was legerdemain.

Astonishing feats of preparation were consummated as if by legerdemain.

Conjuror has since become a name for a professor of legerdemain or sleight-of-hand.

Word Value for legerdemain
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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