extreme delicacy or subtlety in action, performance, skill, discrimination, taste, etc.

skill in handling a difficult or highly sensitive situation; adroit and artful management

exceptional diplomatic finesse.

a trick, artifice, or stratagem.

Bridge, Whist . an attempt to win a trick with a card while holding a higher card not in sequence with it, in the hope that the card or cards between will not be played.

to use finesse or artifice.

to make a finesse at cards.

to bring about by finesse or artifice.

to avoid; circumvent.

to make a finesse with (a card).

to force the playing of (a card) by a finesse.

noun

ignorance

verb

bobble , mishandle

noun

acumen , adeptness , adroitness , artfulness , artifice , big stick , bluff , cleverness , competence , con , craft , craftiness , cunning , delicacy , diplomacy , discernment , discretion , feint , gimmick , grift , guile , polish , quickness , racket * , run-around * , ruse , savoir-faire , savvy , skill , sophistication , stratagem , subtlety , tact , trick , wile

verb

angle , beguile , bluff , exploit , finagle * , jockey * , operate , play , play games , pull strings , pull wires , rig * , wangle , engineer , worm , adeptness , artfulness , artifice , craftiness , cunning , delicacy , dexterity , guile , maneuver , manipulate , refinement , savvy , sensitivity , skill , stratagem , subtlety , tact