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Word entry · 7 letters

finagle

Best crossword clue

"Get by trickery"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /fɪˈneɪ.ɡəl/Part of speech verbSorted aefgilnStarts with FEnds with E1 clues
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Definitions

  1. achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods

Word origin

Americanism from the 1920s, perhaps combining an alteration of fainaigue (“to renege”) with the suffix + -le (“frequentative”), possibly influenced by inveigle; compare haggle.

Used in a sentence

  • finagle a day off work
  • finagled his way out of a ticket by pretending to be on the way to a funeral, distraught
  • shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.

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