OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 29016

finesse

/fɪˈnɛs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
amañar • apañar
To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or stratagem.
As the children continue to shoot one another, I ask them some questions about guns. […] [M]ost revealing to me is that the children fully agree that they are playing a pretend gam…
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.