(uncountable) A skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation.
It is not impossible that this bold attempt to wrest from this State and Nation, so large and important a frontier territory; with the insidious arts, and unblushing finesse and chicanery, with which the British pretensions have been man…
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(uncountable) The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill.
Finesse is not exactly subtlety; we draw a person into a snare with finesse; we escape from it with subtlety. We act with finesse, and we play a subtle trick. Distrust is inspired by an unsparing use of finesse; yet we almost always dece…
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(countable) An adroit maneuver.
The Treaty of Madrid called into action the diplomatic finesse, or rather the low cunning of the English cabinet.
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