0 past simple and past participle of finesse
1 to deal with a situation or a person in a skilful and often slightly dishonest way:
The seminar quietly finessed the definitional question, not without a few polite demurs.
In practice the limitations of each of the schools is finessed by reaching further and defining a cultural theory by its productions.
Regardless of how the appeal to tradition might be finessed, plenty of clearly traditional religious hypotheses remain.
In the criminal law, by contrast, that issue is either wholly ignored or shamelessly finessed.
The issue of autonomy has been finessed, rather than having been confronted and overcome.
One immediate benefit of the integration approach is that problems of consistency can be finessed.
These metaphysical difficulties may be able to be finessed.
What cannot be finessed are the epistemological difficulties.
