sleight

• “It is a food label sleight-of-hand that Bruce Silverglade of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit advocacy group, calls a "rip-off" for consumers.”

  The Washington Post: Nutrition buzzwords make hay out of grains of truth

• “(Spoken) -- Hallo, (said the clown, scrambling up again, and scratching his broken head,) to be sure I have heard of sleight-of-hand, hocus-pocus and sich like; but by gum this here be a new manouvre called sleight of legs; however as no boanes be broken between us, I'll endeavour to make use on 'em once more in following the game in view: so here goes, with a”

  Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)

• “Another time, they play at the edge of the stage and execute a kind of sleight of body, marching off stage, quickly changing clothes before marching back on in another guise, repeating this several times in a matter of seconds or minutes.”

  Mr. Memory : Bev Vincent

• “But the same kind of sleight-of-hand is occurring here as with the climate debate.”

  The Washington Post: Run and hit

• “The original referred to a "sleight" against Jamie Carragher.”

  The Guardian: Jamie Carragher: 'I'm not on my last legs at Liverpool yet'

• “If these wars can only be funded through this kind of sleight of hand, they maybe shouldn't be funded at all.”

  The Huffington Post: Rep. Alan Grayson: Funding the War: There Ought to Be a Rule Against This Kind of Rule

• “You could populate an interesting subcategory of composers with a particular flair for that kind of sleight-of-hand.”

  Categorical denials

• “Nothing to do with the kind of sleight-of-hand obfuscation you're trying to pull here, equating "all other Democrats" with Lieberman.”

  CT-SEN: Lieberman Won't Say Whether Dems Should Win House

• “They think the coverage of the "sleight" is nutty.”

  "Why couldn't President Obama have put on more of a show for his British guests?"

• “It's this kind of sleight-of-hand that annoys Clinton supporters: when Senator Obama claims to be above the fray and goes on to take shots at Senator Clinton with exactly the kind of old style political attacks he claims to abhor.”

  Carlotta Cooper: Making Lemonade From Lemons After Debate

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