finespun
- 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 .