[ US /fɪˈnɛs/ ]
[ UK /fɪnˈɛs/ ]
NOUN
  1. subtly skillful handling of a situation
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How To Use finesse In A Sentence

  • She showed finesse and rosy-faced sophistication.
  • One of these fellows (now the highest financial officer of the land!) it seems had even "erred" (then endeavored to finesse the audit, then paid up just prior to ordering his new federal office furniture) in reporting his income tax, as did several other presidential nominees for high offices of trust. Hope and Trust in Obama, or Renewed Vigilance?
  • The drawings share some of the sculptures' rough and uncouth qualities: the line is generally neutral, even unmodulated, and acquires power through repetition rather than finesse.
  • At the Kennedy Center, during "Le Corsaire" 's opening marketplace scene, we saw a stageful of distinct characters, all telling their individual "stories" with wit, finesse and flair, but never play-acting hollowness. Bolshoi Embraces the Pre-Soviet Past
  • Why does the mention of the word finesse incite so much anger inside an NFL locker room? Sports News : CBSSports.com
  • I am an icon of style, a staple of urban finesse.
  • At trick ten, declarer led his singleton club and finessed dummy 's ten. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is a wine that you could start to consider keeping, the rich, highly concentrated fruit has wonderful mid-palate weight and sits within a tannic structure of great finesse.
  • If it loses you are going to need the club finesse and one ruff in the dummy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Positions painted as vital and sometimes "finessed" to advance specific political agendas now all the time. The Moderate Voice
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