Crossword-Solution: FINESSED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Finessed | imp. & p. p. | of Finesse |
We have 10 clues for the answer “FINESSED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Handled adroitly | 1 answer |
| Handled diplomatically | 1 answer |
| Handled tacffully | 1 answer |
| Maneuvered tactfully or adroitly | 1 answer |
| Played one's hand cunningly. | 1 answer |
| Tricked cleverly. | 1 answer |
| Used artifice | 1 answer |
| Used extreme subtlety | 1 answer |
| Maneuvered | 5 answers |
| DEVELOPED WITH EXTREME DELICACY AND SUBTLETY | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZAMECE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FINESSED (5)
Matey's designs could be finessed only by a knowledge of his character: that he was not the fellow to give up the girl he had taken to; and impediments might multiply, but he would bear them down.
Yet here she was, debonnaire and fresh and perfectly appointed--and ah, so terribly neat and spectacularly finessed! Here she was with all that expert formality which, in the old days, had been a reproach to his loosely-swung life and person, to his careless, almost slovenly but well-brushed, cleanly, and polished ease--not like his wife, as though he had been poured out of a mould and set up to dry.
Aggressions were made and repelled, patriots perorated and fought, diplomatists finessed with a zeal worthy of the world's most restless, if not its wisest, age.
This game of chance is always played with an eye to creating a favorable impression on the jury and may be politely finessed to the extreme.
And there I stuck till "stables" sounded, watching the affable sergeant outgeneral his opponents, and noting with some amusement the sulky look that grew more intensified on the heavy face of Hicks (as they called the man who had favored me with that peculiar stare) when Goodell finessed him out of two or three generous-sized pots.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1957–2025).