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finesse1 nounfinesse2 verb finessefi‧nesse1 /fəˈnes/ noun [uncountable]  finesse1Origin: 1500-1600 French fin; ➔ FINE1 - Flame control: a certain amount of finesse is required to fine tune the heat output.
- It is the trick of the big-stage musical number but applied to circus with finesse and much tongue-in-cheek humour.
- The game was a hard slog with no finesse, despite the promotion aspirations of both sides.
- The stats make her a strange hybrid of power and finesse, a combination that she resisted for a while.
if you do something with finesse, you do it with a lot of skill and style: Dario played the sonata with great finesse.finesse1 nounfinesse2 verb finessefinesse2 verb [transitive]  - Kemp uses his creativity to find excuses which are meant to finesse problematic moments.
- Roberts finessed his arrival, speaking to Fernandez privately about their shared responsibilities.
- I had a miserable quantitative background and ended up copying some assignments and finessing the rest as best I could.
- Mr Chen's approach is to finesse the problem of reunification through a mixture of goodwill and verbal subtlety.
- Somehow, we hoped, when the test finally came, she would be able to finesse the written stuff.
- The guard would know he was trying to get away and finesse the whole thing!
1to handle a situation well, but in a way that is slightly deceitful2American English to do something with a lot of skill and style |