Definitions for sleight

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Spelling: [slahyt]
IPA: /slaɪt/

Sleight is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in sleight (eghilst).

Definitions for sleight

noun

  1. skill; dexterity.
  2. an artifice; stratagem.
  3. cunning; craft.

Origin of sleight

1225-75; Middle English; early Middle English slēgth Old Norse slǣgth. See sly, -th1

Examples for sleight

The treatises on sleight of hand give the method of executing this trick.

Yet in these seeming miracles there is nothing of "black art" or sleight of hand.

I got it out of him, by sleight of hand—where we had met before.

He does the heavy lifting, and she passes it off with a sleight of hand.

But to simply call all these feelings melancholy, Toohey argues, is to link disparate experiences by a sleight of metaphor.

To posit that the war brings us closer to faith is a sleight of hand that makes fools of us all.

Of course, there are tricks of sleight of hand by which the conclusion is evaded.

The only sleight of hand I can detect is the fact that our hero never actually kills anyone himself.

That was one of the miracles we asked you the sleight of, and are you going to say nothing about that?

The real Mamet is an actor who became a writer and had a real sense of the criminal and the sleight of hand in American life.

Word Value for sleight
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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