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Skilful handling
Answer for the clue "Skilful handling ", 7 letters:
finesse
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Word definitions for finesse in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Finesse is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to use fine stratagems," 1746, originally as a term in whist; see finesse (n.). Related: Finessed ; finessing .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. subtly skillful handling of a situation [syn: delicacy , diplomacy , discreetness ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
Usage examples of finesse.
Only noblemen possess the finesse and acuity required to learn the skills of governing eotaurs and the fickle currents of the atmosphere.
Too undone to finesse the spells he might have tried as a restorative, Dakar offered up a muzzy prayer to Ath for a speedy, smooth pass beneath the Wheel.
The liquid, available in some foreign countries, is carb-free, and while it will take a little more finesse to figure out quantities, it will allow me to slash the carb counts of all sorts of recipes still further.
Mark Kemper would require more finesse than had been used to trick Spooner.
Thanks also to my editors, Dianne Moggy and Amy Moore-Benson, who helped to shape this work with sensitivity and finesse.
Hope raised a flame of fierce expectation, as in response to relentless finesse his drawn rune lit to hazed phosphor, then drifted above the basin.
Odysseus has been taken in and fed and the other guests have departed, he has a conversation with Alkinoos and Arete that, like his encounter with Nausikaa, demands all his finesse to avoid possible pitfalls.
Only the ballcarrier, one man, could attempt to use evasion and finesse in avoiding the primal impact.
Carcer raised his sword and took a stance, but there was no room for finesse in the melee and Vimes closed like a bull, knocking the sword up and grabbing Carcer by the throat.
Not a finesse skater, he galloped down the ice, stickhandling with one hand, and fending off attackers with the other.
The train tracks had been ripped up and replaced by a vast apron of enzyme-bonded concrete that had been poured without any finesse over the ground all the way back to the main highway leading to the planetary station.
Brute strength and broadswords were pitted against finesse and rapiers.
And, it must be said, some scientists and dedicated sceptics apply this tool as a blunt instrument, with little finesse.
On his side was her own nature, the adventurousness she seemed determined to bury, and a very real situation that needed to be finessed.
All that Bata had taught him about finesse of expression was gone as if it had never been.