delicacy vs finesse

delicacy

noun
  • Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance. 

  • Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement. 

  • The quality of being delicate. 

  • Refinement in taste or discrimination. 

  • Tact and propriety; the need for such tact. 

  • Frailty of health or fitness. 

finesse

noun
  • The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill. 

  • An adroit manoeuvre. 

  • In bridge, whist, etc.: a technique which allows one to win a trick, usually by playing a card when it is thought that a card that can beat it is held by another player whose turn is over. 

  • Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation. 

verb
  • To play (a card) as a finesse. 

  • To obtain something from someone through trickery or manipulation. 

  • To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or stratagem. 

  • To attempt to win a trick by finessing. 

  • To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way. 

How often have the words delicacy and finesse occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )