![]() Finesse is especially subtle contrivance, delicate artifice, whether for good or evil. A device is something studied out for promoting an end, as in a mechanism the word is used of indirect action, often, but not necessarily directed to an evil, selfish, or injurious end. An artifice is a carefully and delicately prepared contrivance for doing indirectly what one could not well do directly. ![]() A ruse or a blind may be quite innocent and harmless. ![]() E'en children followed with endearing wile.Ī trick is often low, injurious, and malicious we say a mean trick the word is sometimes used playfully with less than its full meaning.
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