Finagle

Quick meaning: Finagle is a verb meaning (transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.

Meaning

(transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.
2. (ambitransitive) To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)

Example Sentences

finagle a day off work

shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.

finagled his way out of a ticket by pretending to be on the way to a funeral, distraught

The kitten followed Sophie everywhere and had finagled her way into free run of the house. Cooper didn't much care for the way the little beast acted as if she already owned the place. He certainly didn't care for the way she leaped up onto his desk, and sat on his laptop, as if to say, “Let's see how you get out of this one, cowboy.”

Word Forms

• finagles
• finagling
• finagled
• finangle

Synonyms for finagle

Depending on context, synonyms include fainaigue, wangle, manage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wangle, manage, finangle, phenagle, fainaigue, finesse.

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