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Word entry · 7 letters

finagle

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"Get by trickery"

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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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