Crossword clues for finessed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Finesse \Fi*nesse"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Finessed; p. pr. & vb. n. Finessing.]
To use artifice or stratagem.
--Goldsmith.(Whist Playing) To attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: finesse)
Usage examples of "finessed".
Littell finessed us, and I’m beginning to rue the day I taught him some things.
It finessed a sharp turn, right into the appropriate room—Banichi had to have his head exposed, steering it: that was Bren’s immediate thought.
Taking great pains to cover his tracks, Spencer had first gained entry to the Los Angeles Police Department's computers, stepped from there to the state attorney general's system in Sacramento, and from there into the parole board's computer, where he finessed the address to which Beckwatt would be paroled.
The river wiggled it, wrenched it, alternately jammed and finessed it, crumpled it at each end to force it forward a foot, an inch, grudgingly forward.
The medications that she had finessed, by computer, out of various drug companies had been lost with the Range Rover.
Shane pulled a credit card from his wallet, worked it between the door and the jamb, and finessed the lock in less time than it took for Niall to check in.
Every time he thought of how his mother-in-law had finessed fifteen percent of the Savoy Ranch out of his control, he wished all over again that he'd known in time to change things.
Hell, he'd have finessed the locks before she'd pulled it out of her pocket.
He finessed, turning his head to hear the seductive click of tumblers.