sleight

perform sleight of hand

The trick is done simply by sleight of hand.

this is financial sleight of hand of the worst sort.

turn out to be a clumsy sleight of hand

except by sleight of logic, the two positions cannot be harmonized.

a nifty bit of sleight of hand got the ashtray into the correct position.

deceive the voters with a (piece of) political sleight of hand

We now realize that much of Burt’s research was presented with a statistical sleight of hand.