finesse

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What does 'finessing' mean in this sentence?

As the children continue to shoot one another, I ask them some questions about guns. Most revealing to me is that the children fully agree that they are playing a pretend game. The bad guys 'really hurt people' and Freddie knows it because he 'plays' it. Really hurting in pretend play … the children are not confused by this finessing of real and pretend.