to get something by guile

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• finagle — /fəˈneɪgəl/ (say fuh nayguhl) verb (finagled, finagling) Colloquial –verb (i) 1. to practise deception or fraud. –verb (t) 2. to trick or cheat (a person). 3. to get (something) by guile or trickery; wangle: to finagle free tickets. {variant of… …  

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• finagle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. wangle; maneuver. See cunning, deception. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) v. [fuh NA gul] arrange, maneuver or manipulate to get something. Joe tried to finagle his way into the game… …   English dictionary for students

• finagle — finagler, n. /fi nay geuhl/, v., finagled, finagling. v.t. 1. to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often fol. by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune. 2. to get or achieve (something) by guile, trickery, or manipulation: to… …   Universalium

• finagle — fi•na•gle [[t]fɪˈneɪ gəl[/t]] v. gled, gling 1) to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often fol. by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune[/ex] 2) to get or achieve (something) by guile, trickery, or manipulation: to finagle an… …   From formal English to slang

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