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Synonyms for finesse
fɪˈnɛssfi·nesse

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 1 vote

  1. finesse

    A contrivance or device may be either good or bad. A cheat is a mean advantage in a bargain; a fraud, any form of covert robbery or injury. Imposture is a deceitful contrivance for securing charity, credit, or consideration. A stratagem or maneuver may be of the good against the bad, as it were a skilful movement of war. A wile is usually but not necessarily evil.

    E'en children followed with endearing wile.

    Goldsmith Deserted Village, l. 184.

    A trick is often low, injurious, and malicious; we say a mean trick; the word is sometimes used playfully with less than its full meaning. A ruse or a blind may be quite innocent and harmless. An artifice is a carefully and delicately prepared contrivance for doing indirectly what one could not well do directly. A device is something studied out for promoting an end, as in a mechanism; the word is used of indirect action, often, but not necessarily directed to an evil, selfish, or injurious end. Finesse is especially subtle contrivance, delicate artifice, whether for good or evil. Compare FRAUD.

    Synonyms:
    art, artifice, blind, cheat, contrivance, craft, cunning, device, dodge, fraud, guile, imposture, invention, machination, maneuver, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile

    Antonyms:
    artlessness, candor, fairness, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, ingenuousness, innocence, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 2 votes

  1. delicacy, diplomacy, discreetness, finessenoun

    subtly skillful handling of a situation

    Synonyms:
    diplomatic negotiations, daintiness, dainty, diplomacy, delicacy, statesmanship, prudence, circumspection, slightness, discreetness, fineness, airiness, treat, fragility, kickshaw, goody, discretion, statecraft

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. finessenoun

    Synonyms:
    trick, stratagem, artifice, ruse, fraud, deception, cheat, wile, manœuvre

  2. finesseverb

    Synonyms:
    use stratagem, practise tricks

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. finessenoun

    Synonyms:
    artifice, stratagem, maneuvering, ruses

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "finesse":

    fineness, delicacy, subtlety, acumen, sharpness

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How to use finesse in a sentence?

  1. Derwood Fincher:

    Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!

  2. Deshawn Yeldell:

    If people don’t respect you Enough to give you natural respect for your achievements without you begging for their support, truth is they don’t respect your talent they respect your clout therefore you will be begging for their respect and support forever, and then you are left to finesse people creating two broken sides of untruthfulness, let love come naturally and God shall bless thy gifts one has inherited in life..... A prophecy has spoken. -MillYentei

  3. Ramana Pemmaraju:

    Most of them are remembered for their works, few are remembered in spite of them...for their finesse!”

  4. Tiffany Fitzgerald:

    It is more about mental endurance and finesse and skill than it is strength and force, so you can play golf for a lifetime.

  5. Gary Bauer:

    The temptation by politicians is to try and finesse these issues and move on, but no member will be able to claim ignorance.


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