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finagle
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb finagle has 1 sense
- finagle(v = verb.social) manage, wangle - achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods; Array is one way to accomplish, achieve, attain, reach
Derived form noun finagler1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody something
CIDE DICTIONARY
finagle, v. i. & t.
to achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
finagle, v.intr. & tr. colloq. act or obtain dishonestly.
Derivative
finagler n.
Etymology
dial. fainaigue cheat
THESAURUS
finagle
angle, beat, beguile of, bilk, brew, bunco, burn, cabal, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, collude, complot, con, concoct, connive, conspire, contrive, cook up, countermine, counterplot, cozen, crib, defraud, diddle, do in, do out of, engineer, euchre, finesse, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, frame, frame up, fudge, gerrymander, gouge, gull, gyp, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, intrigue, jockey, lay a plot, machinate, maneuver, manipulate, mulct, operate, pack the deal, pigeon, play games, plot, practice fraud upon, pull strings, rig, rook, scam, scheme, screw, sell gold bricks, shave, shortchange, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, thimblerig, throw a fight, victimize, wangle
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