2syllables
finesse
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Definitions offinesse
1noun
- Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation.
Synonyms: finessing
- The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill.
- An adroit manoeuvre.
- In bridge, whist, etc.: a technique which allows one to win a trick, usually by playing a card when it is thought that a card that can beat it is held by another player whose turn is over.
1verb
- To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or strategem.
- To play (a card) as a finesse.
- To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way.
Synonyms: zhoosh
- To attempt to win a trick by finessing.
- To play a ball out of the way of an opponent.
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