finesse: meaning and definitions

Refinement and delicacy of performance, execution, or artisanship.

Skillful, subtle handling of a situation; tactful, diplomatic maneuvering.

A method of leading up to a tenace, as in bridge, in order to prevent an opponent from winning the trick with an intermediate card.

A stratagem in which one appears to decline an advantage.

To accomplish by the use of finesse.

To handle with a deceptive or evasive strategy.

To play (a card) as a finesse.

To use finesse.

To make a finesse in cards.