Finesse vs Brutality - What's the difference?
finesse | brutality |
(uncountable) The property of having grace, elegance, skill, or balance.
(uncountable) Skill in handling of a situation.
(countable) An adroit maneuver.
(countable, bridge) A technique which allows one to promote tricks based on a favorable position of one or more cards in the hands of the opponent.
(ambitransitive, card games) To play (a card) as a finesse (see noun sense above).
To handle or manage carefully or skillfully.
To evade.
The state of being brutal.
A cruel or savage act.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=18 The use of excessive physical force e.g. police brutality.
As nouns the difference between finesse and brutality
is that finesse is finesse while brutality is the state of being brutal.finesse
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(finess)brutality
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(brutalities)citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
