What's the difference between sleight and sleighty?

Sleight


Definition:

  • (n.) Cunning; craft; artful practice.
  • (n.) An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
  • (n.) Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although it's presented as a boys' story, rooted in historical reality, it also demonstrates Stevenson's artistic sleight-of-hand.
  • (2) No, not Gordon Brown, although there were times when today's sleights of hand and burying of bad news had strong echoes of the clunking fist at its worst.
  • (3) Bewley lifts the lid on a world of sleight of hand, massage and plain lying by omission in the world of fertility statistics.
  • (4) This sort of sleight of hand is what we lawyers call " sharp practice ".
  • (5) Infantile delivery also frequently serves to take the curse off self-publicity; sleight of hand for those who find "my programme is on BBC2 tonight" too presumptuous and exposing, and prefer to cower behind the low-status imbecility of "I done rote a fingy for da tellybox!"
  • (6) A fluorescent analog of phosphatidylethanolamine [palmitoyl-C6-NBD)-PE), which also exhibits transmembrane movement at the plasma membrane at 7 degrees C (Sleight, R. G., and Pagano, R. E. (1985) J. Biol.
  • (7) At times it has obfuscated its message on the bailout but Syriza's most impressive sleight of hand has been its attempt to appeal to incompatible constituencies.
  • (8) The tone is set once the charlady answers the telephone with the words: “Hello, the drawing room of Lady Muldoon’s country residence one morning in early spring.” The critics first comment on the action from the stalls and then, by a Pirandellian sleight of hand, become a part of it.
  • (9) He predicted: "There is a real, real danger that the Liberal Democrats could implode – their role has been a sleight of hand."
  • (10) The Institute for Fiscal Studies played a blinder, as usual, pointing out the Treasury's sleights of hand and misrepresentations.
  • (11) Instead, as we have reported, HMRC is using sleight of hand to release information about VAT to credit reference agencies who have been disguised as contractors to avoid confidentiality law.
  • (12) In England, unless championed by Labour, they can just as easily be harnessed by Ukip – or used to justify a Tory constitutional sleight of hand that could derail a Labour government and leave Liverpool and Newcastle at the mercy of a Farageist southern suburbia.
  • (13) Had the Elysée's salles des fêtes been packed to the ornate rafters and chandeliers with French media, the sleight of hand might have worked.
  • (14) Green campaigners believe the Lib Dems have been persuaded into allowing higher energy bills to flow into increased profits for nuclear companies by a sleight of hand that lets ministers disguise nuclear subsidies as support for "low-carbon power".
  • (15) Osborne's budget was a lesson in sleight of hand Read more The moment was ripe for someone – perhaps a child, as in the fable – to stand up and point out that the emperors of the Treasury and the OBR have no clothes; that all these predictions, while not exactly worthless, can’t be relied on to last five weeks let alone five years.
  • (16) Another tweeted that BGT’s producers should have informed viewers about the sleight of hand before the public decided who to vote for in the final.
  • (17) Thailand’s friends abroad should not be fooled by this obvious sleight of hand … that effectively provides unlimited and unaccountable powers.” In particular, unlawful detentions of civilian opponents looked set to increase, he suggested .
  • (18) Scrutiny of the documents suggests it is based on three key assumptions – and one sleight of hand.
  • (19) Chinese hamster ovary cells maintained in culture medium supplemented with complete serum can grow at nearly normal rates in the presence of phospholipase C for many generations, even though the treatment enhances turnover of cellular phosphatidylcholine (R. Sleight and C. Kent (1983) J. Biol.
  • (20) "Britain's young people who do not have the skills they need for work should be in training, not on benefits," said Miliband, in a neat bit of sleight of hand that lays the lack of employment in this age group firmly at their own door.

Sleighty


Definition:

  • (a.) Cinning; sly.

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