Usually means: Skillfully maneuvering a situation subtly.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. finessing: Merriam-Webster
  2. finessing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. finessing: Wordnik
  4. finessing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. finessing: Wiktionary
  6. Finessing, finessing: Dictionary.com
  7. Finessing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Finessing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. finessing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. finessing: FreeDictionary.org
  11. finessing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. finessing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. finessing: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (finessing)

▸ noun:  The act of handling something with care or skill.

Similar:
delicacy, discreetness, diplomacy, dexterity, practice, sleight, finery, artfulness, craft, cunning, more...

Opposite:
blundering, bungling, clumsy, fumbling, inept, maladroit

Types:
massaging, manipulating, adjusting, tweaking, tailoring, more...

Adjectives:
little, diplomatic, such, ponderous, much, further, mutual, adverse, futile



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Similar:
delicacy, discreetness, diplomacy, dexterity, practice, sleight, finery, artfulness, craft, cunning, more...

Opposite:
blundering, bungling, clumsy, fumbling, inept, maladroit

Types:
massaging, manipulating, adjusting, tweaking, tailoring, more...

Adjectives:
little, diplomatic, such, ponderous, much, further, mutual, adverse, futile



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