legerdemain

noun2

1. •
   Sleight of hand; "magic" trickery.

   • For he in slights and jugling feates did flow, / And of legierdemayne the mysteries did know. — 1596
2. •
   A show of skill or deceitful ability.

   • Certainly, that they are to this day so rife in Italy and Spain, and so scant in Britain, is a shrewd ground to apprehend Legerdemain, and forgery, in the accounts we get of their later Saints. — 1673