tired of the legerdemain of collapsing the word's neutral meaning--"preference, inclination"--into the pejorative one of "unfairness stemming from prejudice"

the mental legerdemain necessary to portray our most precious internalities as external to us

There was a frenzy of elaborate and expensive tax-dodging legerdemain on all sides, a symphonic interplay of shell companies and shifted debt

the World Bank has been playing a shell game. It willfully concealed the real state of world poverty by legerdemain.