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US
/ˈfɪnəɡəɫ, fɪˈneɪɡəɫ/
]
[ UK /fɪnˈeɪɡəl/ ]
[ UK /fɪnˈeɪɡəl/ ]
VERB
- achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
How To Use finagle In A Sentence
- Attempts to shore up the value of a derivative without shoring up the value of the assets from which they ultimately derive their value are likely to be in vain however cleverly we may try to finagle.
- Witt says his agency has finagled some funds from the DHS, although it has been ‘through the back door, ‘he says.’
- Nature can deal with kinetic energy one way or another, but it cannot finagle momentum.
- Realizing that he was in well over his head, Alwan faked an ankle injury and finagled his way out of the camp. The Longest War
- So full of ego and brashness, Stu finagles his way around town, pumping up his clients and manipulating anyone who can get him one step further in life.
- Early in our research, we finagled a lunch with the CIA case officer known as Mad Dog. Fallout
- But the question of how much he finagled from the treasury while doing it is a very good one. Tet II - Another ring of Hell
- These are really things that researchers will set up and finagle on their own in the lab.
- But then, this little enterprise shouldn't take too long to finagle. KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
- We should be in France, of course, but our teacher is wily, and has finagled for us a few days in England first.