Synonyms and Antonyms of sleight
1
a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end
- must have employed some sophisticated sleight to con that wary couple out of their money
artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, knack, play, ploy, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, stratagem, trick, wile
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
2
mental skill or quickness
- a brilliant new theory that pays tribute to his remarkable sleight of mind
ability, aptitude, capability, capacity, faculty, knack, prowess, talent
competence, competency, efficiency, expertise, know-how, proficiency
ingeniousness, ingenuity, resourcefulness
savvy, sharpness, shrewdness
artfulness, artifice, caginess (also cageyness), canniness, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, deviousness, foxiness, guile, slickness, slyness, sneakiness, subtleness, wiliness
inadequacy, incompetence, incompetency, ineptitude, ineptness
brainlessness, denseness, density, doltishness, dopiness, dullness (also dulness), dumbness, fatuity, foolishness, mindlessness, obtuseness, senselessness, simpleness, slowness, stupidity, stupidness, witlessness
3
ease and grace in physical activity
- a muscle-bound weight lifter known more for his might than his sleight
