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sleight (SLIGHT) (noun)
1. Deceitful efforts. "He tried to borrow a large sum of money by using sleight."
2. The act of tricking or deceiving someone, or others, in a clever way: "Investigative journalists exposed the company's financial sleight of hand to its investors."
slight (SLIGHT) (adjective)
1. Not stout, but slim or delicate: "Her slight figure was draped in black because her favorite cat had died."
2. Trivial, superficial, and not having much importance: "They had a slight acquaintance and so they could not say that they were friends."

The circus barker was physically very slight as well as very clever. Her sleight of hand when it came to card tricks was amazing.