sleight

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of SLEIGHT

a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end <must have employed some sophisticated sleight to con that wary couple out of their money>

Synonyms artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, knack, play, ploy, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, wile

Related Words bluff, end run, feint; cheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery; fraud, gaff, hoax, sham, swindle; blind, front, smoke screen

mental skill or quickness <a brilliant new theory that pays tribute to his remarkable sleight of mind>

Synonyms adroitness, cleverness, finesse, sleight

Near Antonyms inadequacy, incompetence, incompetency, ineptitude, ineptness; brainlessness, denseness, density, doltishness, dopiness, dullness (also dulness), dumbness, fatuity, foolishness, mindlessness, obtuseness, senselessness, simpleness, slowness, stupidity, stupidness, witlessness

ease and grace in physical activity <a muscle-bound weight lifter known more for his might than his sleight>

Synonyms agility, deftness, nimbleness, sleight, spryness

Near Antonyms disability, inability, incapability, incapacity; debilitation, disablement, impairment, incapacitation; unhandiness

Antonyms awkwardness, clumsiness, gaucheness, gawkiness, gawkishness, gracelessness, ham-handedness, heavy-handedness, klutziness, ungainliness

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