black art
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.06 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A practice such as witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, or black magic.
Example Sentences
- "dabbling in the black arts"
- "In 1690s Salem, anyone was at mortal risk of being accused of practicing the black arts."
- "For even the enchantresses Circe and Medea could not, by their black arts, prevent the unfaithfulness of Odysseus and Jason."
- "As a parish priest in England he had dabbled in the black arts, seduced a number of his congregation from their faith and finally celebrated the Black Mass."
- "Operating a hand card punch was something of a black art."
- "Traincrew management has always been a bit of a black art, rather than a science. The present traincrew difficulties that beset the UK rail industry are neither new nor were they unforeseeable."