My favorite prestidigitation was when he pulled the live dove out of that tiny scarf.
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Prestidigitation
//ˌpɹɛstɪˌdɪd͡ʒɪˈteɪʃən//
Synonyms for "prestidigitation" (45 found)
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27 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- ловкост noun (deceitful cleverness)
- фокусничество noun (sleight of hand)
Catalan
1 entries- prestidigitació noun (sleight of hand)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 把戲 /把戏 noun (sleight of hand)
Finnish
3 entries- näppäryys noun (sleight of hand)
- silmänkääntötemppu noun (sleight of hand)
- sorminäppäryys noun (sleight of hand)
French
2 entries- prestidigitation noun (sleight of hand)
- prestidigitation noun (deceitful cleverness)
German
3 entries- Taschenspielerkunst noun (sleight of hand)
- Taschenspielertrick noun (sleight of hand)
- Taschenspielertrick noun (deceitful cleverness)
Greek
2 entries- ταχυδακτυλουργία noun (sleight of hand)
- ταχυδακτυλουργία noun (deceitful cleverness)
Hungarian
4 entries- bűvészkedés noun (deceitful cleverness)
- bűvészmutatvány noun (sleight of hand)
- bűvésztrükk noun (sleight of hand)
- mutatvány noun (sleight of hand)
Japanese
1 entries- 手品 noun (sleight of hand)
Polish
2 entries- prestidigitatorstwo noun (sleight of hand)
- szalbierstwo noun (deceitful cleverness)
Spanish
2 entries- prestidigitación noun (sleight of hand)
- prestidigitación noun (deceitful cleverness)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
He borrowed another hat and displayed its perfect emptiness; he held up his empty hands: "This is one of the most marvellous bits of prestidigitation known," he said. "You have all seen this hat holds nothing in the world: I will now see if I can extract anything from its emptiness. You can all observe my hands go nowhere but into the hat, and they are both open and turned to you. Yet what is this?"
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His writing was peppered with verbal tricks and prestidigitation.
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The more modest place became the picture better; yet, as my eyes grew accustomed to the half-light, all the characteristic qualities came out--all the hesitations disguised as audacities, the tricks of prestidigitation by which, with such consummate skill, he managed to divert attention from the real business of the picture to some pretty irrelevance of detail.
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