Finesse is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FINESSE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to use cunning strategy
• bring about or deal with (something) by using great delicacy and skill
• slyly attempt to avoid blame or censure when dealing with (a situation or problem)
• (in bridge and whist) play (a card) in the hope of winning a trick with it because any card that could beat it is in the hand of the opponent who has already played.
• To use artifice or stratagem.
• To attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play.
• bring about with finesse
NOUN:
• impressive delicacy and skill
• great subtlety and tact in handling or manipulating people or difficult situations
• (in bridge and whist) an attempt to win a trick with a card that is not a certain winner, typically by playing it as the third card in a trick in the hope that any card that could beat it is in the hand of the opponent who has already played.
• delicate skill
• subtly skillful handling of a situation
ADJECTIVE:
• Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.
• The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to bring about by adroit maneuvering

Words related to FINESSE

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Words that contain FINESSE

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How to use FINESSE in a sentence

• His energy, tact, unscrupulousness, and art in conciliating the hostile and animating the indifferent made him unequalled in political finesse.
• Thousands of Spaniards fell as the result of his daring and finesse in military execution.
• I have no skill in finesse, in the subtlety, the delicate moves which are the inherent qualities of a game of whist.
• It might be only social finesse in Pearl but she was showing to others the same pleased vivacity she had shown to him.
• The sum total gave her a man of rank passions, of rare and merciless finesse where his desires figured, a man who got what he wanted by whatever means most fitly served his need.
• Truth to tell, he was no master of finesse, and had but recently been promoted from an East End district where prompt physical action was of more value than subtlety.
• It was the finesse of clever scheming, nothing less than murder, and he, by this combination of circumstances and plot, was the victim marked for death.
• But the Roman commander, Martinus, finding himself inferior in force, brought finesse and stratagem to his aid.
• No one has excelled Auber in the expression of all the finesse of wit and lightness of touch.
• Prowde speeches, and too much finesse and curiositie is not commendable in an Embassadour.
• It is in general unsound to finesse against a card that must be unguarded.
• It is generally useless to lead a moderately high card from the weaker hand in order to finesse it, when holding no cards in sequence with it in either hand.
• The highest of a sequence led through dummy will frequently tell the third player that he has a good finesse.
• Such a king, William met by finesse and deception against finesse and deception.
• He applied therefore to James, whose weakness, disguised to himself under the appearance of finesse and dissimulation, was now become absolutely incurable.
• Never before did a horse play such a dangerous game, and surely none ever showed such finesse.
• If we succeed it will be by finesse rather than force, and that is distinctly a feminine quality.
• Senator Hammond is an exponent of a style which lays greater stress on finesse than on vigour.
• He had come on a difficult errand, and because he had no finesse he blundered badly.
• There is a power of finesse in the feminine mind that no man may fully compass, and Yolanda, in that respect, was the flower of her sex.
• In seating the younger generation, Miss Jean showed her finesse.
• You have made him exhibit finesse, for he did all the talking to keep you from asking too curious or embarrassing questions.
• However, after running with the current, backing water, and clever finesse, we come safely to anchor against the shore opposite the Fort, under the lee of Bear Rock.
• The men of quick intelligence, not without a certain amount of finesse, but superficial.
• My finesse was too well planned for detection, and my snares too deeply laid for any one to escape who had the least warmth in her constitution, or affection in her heart.
• He combined native Indian cunning with the strategy and finesse needed to make a great general, and his ability as a leader was conceded alike by red and white man.
• Her beauty and finesse and alluringness make her simply irresistible.
• Intrigue will be pardonable, diplomatic finesse will become a duty.
• Shrewdly working upon that, Hunter played with skill and finesse.

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