FINESSES Antonyms

• unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

• the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant

• the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

• language or humor that is down-to-earth

• the quality of being composed of relatively large particles

• looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)

• the quality of lacking taste and refinement

• a powerful effect or influence

• (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity

• physical energy or intensity

• group of people willing to obey orders

• a unit that is part of some military service

• an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

• one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

• a group of people having the power of effective action

• (of a law) having legal validity

• a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

• urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

• move with force

• impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably

• squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

• force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

• do forcibly; exert force

• take by force

• the quality of lacking refinement and good taste

• unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

• having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful

• a manner that is rude and insulting

• a wild or unrefined state

• inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor

• a lack of cognitive skill