Finesse vs Decorum - What's the difference?
finesse | decorum |
(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.
(uncountable) Appropriate social behavior; propriety
* 2010 — , This Isn't What It Looks Like , ch. 4
(countable) A convention of social behavior
As nouns the difference between finesse and decorum
is that finesse is finesse while decorum is decorum.finesse
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(finess)decorum
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- It was sort of a finishing school. You know, to teach proper social decorum and so on and so forth.
