Meaning

To achieve or obtain (something) by complicated or deceitful methods; to finagle, to wangle..

Definitions by Sense

1. To achieve or obtain (something) by complicated or deceitful methods; to finagle, to wangle.
2. To cheat or deceive (someone).
3. To evade work or shirk responsibility.
4. To fail to keep a promise; to renege.
5. To renege (“break one's commitment to follow suit when capable”).

Example Sentences

[Edmund] Richardson's contract lapsed in 1871, but five years later the almost incredible Jones Hamilton, who played with plantations, race tracks, railroads, and steamboats as a reckless boy plays with marbles, fainaigued a similar agreement.

The Swabian abbots were in this way fainaigued into choosing [Adam] Adami, but this arrangement still left him without the so-called Virilstimme or final vote.

After much waving of arms I discover that—although meals of a sort are furnished—you are expected to provide your own dishes, if, indeed, you anticipate this refinement in eating. I finally fainaigue a tin plate out of the mess department, for which I am required to give two lire.

He agreed with the boy for a month at £4 a-year, and he went away and feneaged that boy, and never took him nor paid him.

[H]e was doing a stitch of time in Ohio for embezzlement and for fainaiguing a good-hearted Jack under the alias Joseph […]

When Mr. Simpson had spoken of the "Jack of Oaks" (meaning the Knave of Clubs), or had said "fainaiguing" (where others said "revoking"), we had pretended not to notice it, until at length we actually did not.

Word Forms

• fainaigues
• fainaiguing
• fainaigued

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