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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
- By 1985 Heimlich had used his considerable celebrity from developing the Heimlich maneuver for choking to finagle a seat on the American Heart Association's Special Situations Committee.
- It doesn't take a genius to spot the teams that will finagle to get him.
- Two days before the April draft, Donovan finagled her second critical move.
- How he finagled four front row seats to the game I'll never know.
- Indeed, she complained so much that she was able to finagle the chairmanship (sorry, the chairpersonship) of a committee tasked with finding discrimination at MIT.
- Considering the Cowboys still have some money to spend - and own two No. 1 picks - the offseason should get better and better as they try to finagle to get back into the playoffs.
- It'll be up to me to finagle a new pair out of my dad's checkbook by the time Prom rolls around.
- Large businesses don't care so much about regulation - medium-large ones can eat the cost, supersized ones can finagle the regs so that the rules actually favor them - but small-timers have neither money nor pull.
- Well somehow we were able to finagle our way out of it and I won the game with double three.
- That tax break became an issue in the race for speaker, with some lawmakers arguing that it was ridiculous to claim you were making a clean break from the scandals of Richardson if you then turned around and replaced him with someone who finagled a lucrative tax deal for a powerful client. The scandals never stop - poli