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• s  developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety
  the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense
• s  developed in excessively fine detail
  finespun distinctions

• Even in an age when glittering technique is almost taken for granted, Ogdon's facility for both the finespun and the fantastic is prodigious.
• But, as a result of the great sleuth's finespun deductions, Reginald Hicks was hanged by the neck until dead.
• The hottest-selling armor since Wilkinson Sword turned out chain-mail flak suits for airmen in World War II is made, improbably enough, from a finespun synthetic fiber called .

• delicate
• hairsplitting