Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: legerdemain: "legerdemain \lej-er-duh-MAIN\, noun: Sleight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick.

"Their alleged legerdemain at the blackjack table and roulette wheel of the luxurious Salle Anglaise was caught on closed-circuit television." - 'Double dealing puts Monte Carlo in a spin,' Electronic Telegraph, February 23, 1997

"There is a certain knack or legerdemain in argument." - Shaftesbury, Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times"