Definitions
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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01“Get by trickery”7 letters
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