<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>extreme delicacy or subtlety in action, performance, skill, discrimination, taste, etc.</li><li>Synonyms: sensibility, sensitivity, circumspection, diplomacy, tact.</li><li>skill in handling a difficult or highly sensitive situation; adroit and artful management: exceptional diplomatic finesse.</li><li>Synonyms: sensibility, sensitivity, circumspection, diplomacy, tact.</li><li>a trick, artifice, or stratagem.</li><li>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.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) finesse, finessed, finessing: to use finesse or artifice.</li><li>to make a finesse at cards.</li><li>(used with object) finesse, finessed, finessing: to bring about by finesse or artifice.</li><li>to avoid; circumvent.</li><li>to make a finesse with (a card).</li><li>to force the playing of (a card) by a finesse.</li></ul>