finesse
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finesse englanniksi
Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation. (defdate)
(synonyms)
(quote-book)
(RQ:Scott Tales of a Grandfather)
(quote-book)|year=1840|volume=IV|page=29|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=OX8sAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA29|oclc=669306262|passage=The Treaty of Madrid called into action the diplomatic finesse, or rather the low cunning of the English cabinet.
{{quote-journal|1=en|date=2 Feb 2021|author=Katharine Murphy|journal=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2021/feb/02/scott-morrison-must-heed-the-lesson-of-donald-trump-and-slap-down-craig-kelly|
The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill. (defdate)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for the author; and sold by Robson,(nb...)|year=1791|page=164|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/b28760578/page/164/mode/1up|oclc=210037535|passage=An Indian known by the name of ''Silver Heels'', from his superior agility, as well as his admirable finesse in the art of war, and who had killed more of the enemy than any one of the tribes in alliance with Great Britain, accidentally came into the fort just before the soldier was to receive his punishment, and expressed his displeasure that a man should be so shamefully disgraced.
(quote-book); Boston, Mass.: (w)|year=1836|page=181|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=C1w4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA181|oclc=256964559|passage=The first inroads on our laws of incest were made at the instigation, and by the secret management, of some of our "prime nobles," who had either seduced, or married, or pledged themselves to marry ''a wife's sister''; and who wished by this ''finesse'', to escape, at once, public odium and personal responsibility; (..)
(quote-book) is mainly intended for tangibles like business and scientific cooperation, and the designer of which renounces the intention of catering for the finesses of cultural exchange or diplomacy.
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. (defdate)
(quote-book)|series=Bohn’s Scientific Library|location=London|publisher=Henry George Bohn,(nb...)|year=1850|section=part IV (Whist by the Editor)|page=185|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=n45VAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA185|oclc=1132969|passage=''The Finesse Proper.''—When, upon the invite of your partner, you refuse to force with your strongest card, or one of equal strength, you are in the case of the finesse proper. Holding the ace, queen, and ten, and taking with the queen, is a simple finesse; that is, a finesse to the king.
To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or stratagem.
(quote-book)|year=1876|page=38|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekhCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA38|oclc=954234719|passage=It is said that democratic institutions necessarily lead to political corruption. I can only say that it has not been so in this Colony. Members have schemed, finessed, log-rolled, to serve their districts, but never to put money in their own pockets.
(quote-book)|title=The Assassination of Europe, 1918–1942: A Political History|location=Toronto, Ont.|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=2015|page=82|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=8vKPBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA82|isbn=978-1-4426-0919-8|passage=(..) Britain's Prime Minister (w) finessed the distinction between "indemnification" and "reparations" by insisting that his government's pension payments to the families of fallen soldiers should also be categorized as 'civilian" damages, thus making the recipients eligible for "reparations" to the tune of at least $110 billion(nb..).
{{quote-book|en|year=2018|author=John C. Hull|title=Options, Futures and Other Derivatives|edition=10th|publisher=Pearson|page=276
To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way. (defdate)
(quote-book)|year=1835|volume=I|page=240|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=cXaQtRRCALYC&pg=PA240|oclc=557380777|passage=Distressed as she was, she rose the next morning determined to contend with her feelings,—to think no more of Trevor,—and to ''finesse'' no more for a husband—she had had enough of it.
(quote-book) Most revealing to me is that the children fully agree that they are playing a pretend game. The bad guys "really hurt people" and Freddie knows it because he "plays" it. Really hurting in pretend play … the children are not confused by this finessing of real and pretend. I think it is we adults who are confused by it.
(quote-book), I sat down to finesse it in Photoshop.
(quote-song)
(quote-journal)
To obtain something from someone through trickery or manipulation.
(quote-book)|year=1864|section=part I (General Principles)|page=41|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=IRtdAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA41|oclc=33902807|passage=In the first round of a suit, you should generally, / 8. PLAY YOUR HIGHEST CARD THIRD HAND. / a. In order to strengthen your partner. You presume that he leads from his strong suit, and wants to get the winning cards of it out of his way(nb..); you, therefore, do not finesse(nb..), but play your highest, remembering that you play the lowest of a sequence(nb..). With ace, queen (and, of course, ace, queen, knave, &c., in sequence) you do finesse, for, in this case, if the king is in the fourth hand, it must make, unless single, which is very improbable; and by putting on the ace, you make the king good, if against you.
(quote-book)|year=1864|section=part I (General Principles)|page=42|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=IRtdAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA42|oclc=33902807|passage=The ace is certainly to your left, you therefore finesse the ten, for if your left-hand adversary holds ace and knave he must make them both; but otherwise, your ten forces the ace, and you are left with the best.
(quote-journal), and W. W. Morgan,(nb...); Edinburgh: J. Menzies & Co.; Dublin: (publisher)|McGlashan & Gill|date=1 March 1874|volume=VI|page=235|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=CwEBCLzXQREC&pg=PA235|oclc=149740378|passage=Again, no amount of writing, and apparently no amount of practice, will induce a player to see that it is not always right to finesse an Ace Queen. We have seen all the trumps out. We have led a suit (Hearts) of which our partner had Ace, Queen, and two long Clubs; he finessed the Queen, and did not make his two Clubs. (..) Twice in a fortnight have we have the Ace Queen finessed when two cards only remained in each hand and one trump was in.
(quote-journal),(nb...)|month=August|year=1870|volume=V (New Series)|page=308|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=p3kYAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA308|oclc=320982087|passage=Blue finesses to the further boundary, intending to come to his partner next time with black, hoping that if yellow comes after these balls, he may pass the boundary and so lose the break. (..) Black has now to play; he finesses to another boundary.
fineness (of hair, writing etc.)
perceptiveness; sensitivity, (l)