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finesse::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | delicacy, diplomacy, discreetness |
| Type of | tact, tactfulness |
Examples of finesse
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Years past, Kentucky-Louisville could have been construed as a finesse festival.
From the kentucky.com
The power is easily uncoiled, the finesse around the greens touched with genius.
From the independent.co.uk
Proxmire's new finesse was only one ingredient in the lending measure's passage.
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Some guys finesse the issue by folding their towel and putting it on their head.
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He didn't just have them, he played them, well, with power and a bluesy finesse.
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Judges assign credit for smoothness, finesse, attitude, quickness and authority.
From the kentucky.com
You want fewer finesse players and more bangers who can score around the crease.
From the buffalonews.com
It's the one track and field event that perhaps best combines power and finesse.
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Mitchell admits he didn't show quite as much finesse with his career after that.
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- Delicacy: subtly skillful handling of a situation
- In contract bridge and similar games, a finesse is a technique which allows one to promote tricks based on a favorable position of one or more cards in the hands of the opponents. ...
- Finesse is a jazz trio album recorded by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1978 and released on the Concord Jazz record label.
- Distinctive balance; fineness; elegance and flair.
- A liquor with subtle and precise aromas.
- Distinction and grace in a wine.
- A figure of merit for the reflectance of a Fabry-Perot etalon. It is given by R / (1 - R) where R is the reflectance (R < 1). [McL97]
- The finesse of a Fabry-Perot cavity is defined as the ratio between the cavity FSR and the cavity linewidth.
- Delicacy and refinement in structure and texture.
