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Stratagem vs Sleight - What's the difference?

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Stratagem is a related term of sleight.


As nouns the difference between stratagem and sleight

is that stratagem is a tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception while sleight is cunning; craft; artful practice.

stratagem

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]:
    • While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.

    Related terms

    * strategic * strategist * strategy

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    sleight

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Cunning; craft; artful practice.
  • An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
  • Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.

    • Derived terms

    * sleight of hand * sleighty English words not following the I before E except after C rule