Definition of finagle in English:

finagle

verb fɪˈneɪɡ(ə)lfəˈneɪɡ(ə)l

[with object]US informal

1Obtain by dishonest or devious means.
Ted attended all the football games he could finagle tickets for
Example sentencesExamples
- It'll be up to me to finagle a new pair out of my dad's checkbook by the time Prom rolls around.
- If there were even a hint that the White House was finagling a release date like this today, it would be treated like a minor scandal.
- Witt says his agency has finagled some funds from the DHS, although it has been ‘through the back door, ‘he says.’
- Back then, many companies were finagling their numbers to make the results seem better.
- Of course, finagling free stuff can get you only so far.
- We should be in France, of course, but our teacher is wily, and has finagled for us a few days in England first.
- 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.
- The following organizations are especially helpful at finagling the rules toward the insurance industry's cause.
- I knew you were single and available and working at Charisma, so I finagled an invitation to the Elliotts' New Year's Eve party from Cullen.
- Two days before the April draft, Donovan finagled her second critical move.
- Well somehow we were able to finagle our way out of it and I won the game with double three.
- Speaking of Wilcox, the Rockets finagled a private workout with the chiseled Maryland power forward after he completed his three general workout sessions in New York, Chicago and Phoenix.
- 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.
- We all get opportunities, but when presented with hers, Martha used it for all it was worth, finally finagling a book deal in the process.
- That some leaders, as the weekend began, seemed to want to finagle enactment of the constitution anyway demonstrates how much some of them don't get it.
- They are finagling varying levels of credit from their schools for their work at Microsoft; still, it's unclear whether either of them will see much of academia in the future.
- He falls for the daughter of the cop who busted him, but then gets in hot water after finagling his way into a high-profile execution and taking a picture with a hidden camera.
- Not wanting to play in Cleveland and give up his many business interests in the Boston area, Harrelson ‘retired’ for 48 hours, finagling a new two-year contract from the Indians during his brief layoff.
- In his Tuesday column, Paul Krugman hits the big question that shames every reporter who hasn't posed it to the president or whichever other privatizers they can finagle a minute with.
- 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.
Synonyms
deceive, trick, dupe, outwit, fool, delude, cheat, take in, bluff, hoax, mislead, misguide, lead on, defraud, double-cross, swindle, gull, get the better of
1. 1.1no object Act in a dishonest or devious manner.
  they wrangled and finagled over the fine points
  Example sentencesExamples
  Any attempt to finagle with the formula would have ruined the simplicity of its basic premise.
  The answer to the second question appears to be an analyst who is quoted heavily in the report and seems to be the only real source for the fact that Plame somehow finagled to get Wilson the trip.
  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.
  It doesn't take a genius to spot the teams that will finagle to get him.
  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.
  These are really things that researchers will set up and finagle on their own in the lab.
  Synonyms
  manoeuvre, ease, edge, manipulate, work, steer

Derivatives

finagler

nounfɪˈneɪɡ(ə)ləfəˈneɪɡ(ə)lər

informal

But now, according to a national survey by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, your jolly banker has shifted from being just a slight-of-hand finagler of interest rates… to an outright hold-up artist.
Example sentencesExamples
- Please, one otherwise friendly reviewer once pleaded, enough with these ‘creeps, drips, jerks, phonies, fussbudgets, finaglers and fuddy-duddies.’
- With George's cuts, the agency is no match for the corporate finaglers.
- In the World of crime there are thieves in the streets and thieves in the suites, there are bank robbers and banks that rob, there are muggers, murderers, polluters, and finaglers - all kinds and all levels of crime.
- To my mind, this guy has a great art collection, he's versed in everything and he had to be a finagler because somehow he kept his life fairly free within that kind of government.

Origin

1920s (originally US): from dialect fainaigue 'cheat'; perhaps from Old French fornier 'deny'.

Rhymes

bagel, Hegel, inveigle, Schlegel

Definition of finagle in US English:

finagle

verbfəˈnāɡ(ə)lfəˈneɪɡ(ə)l

[with object]US informal

1Obtain (something) by devious or dishonest means.
Ted attended all the football games he could finagle tickets for
Example sentencesExamples
- If there were even a hint that the White House was finagling a release date like this today, it would be treated like a minor scandal.
- The following organizations are especially helpful at finagling the rules toward the insurance industry's cause.
- He falls for the daughter of the cop who busted him, but then gets in hot water after finagling his way into a high-profile execution and taking a picture with a hidden camera.
- 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.
- Not wanting to play in Cleveland and give up his many business interests in the Boston area, Harrelson ‘retired’ for 48 hours, finagling a new two-year contract from the Indians during his brief layoff.
- We all get opportunities, but when presented with hers, Martha used it for all it was worth, finally finagling a book deal in the process.
- Two days before the April draft, Donovan finagled her second critical move.
- 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.
- I knew you were single and available and working at Charisma, so I finagled an invitation to the Elliotts' New Year's Eve party from Cullen.
- Back then, many companies were finagling their numbers to make the results seem better.
- Witt says his agency has finagled some funds from the DHS, although it has been ‘through the back door, ‘he says.’
- 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.
- It'll be up to me to finagle a new pair out of my dad's checkbook by the time Prom rolls around.
- Of course, finagling free stuff can get you only so far.
- They are finagling varying levels of credit from their schools for their work at Microsoft; still, it's unclear whether either of them will see much of academia in the future.
- In his Tuesday column, Paul Krugman hits the big question that shames every reporter who hasn't posed it to the president or whichever other privatizers they can finagle a minute with.
- We should be in France, of course, but our teacher is wily, and has finagled for us a few days in England first.
- That some leaders, as the weekend began, seemed to want to finagle enactment of the constitution anyway demonstrates how much some of them don't get it.
- Well somehow we were able to finagle our way out of it and I won the game with double three.
- Speaking of Wilcox, the Rockets finagled a private workout with the chiseled Maryland power forward after he completed his three general workout sessions in New York, Chicago and Phoenix.
Synonyms
deceive, trick, dupe, outwit, fool, delude, cheat, take in, bluff, hoax, mislead, misguide, lead on, defraud, double-cross, swindle, gull, get the better of
1. 1.1no object Act in a devious or dishonest manner.
  they wrangled and finagled over the fine points
  Example sentencesExamples
  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.
  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.
  Any attempt to finagle with the formula would have ruined the simplicity of its basic premise.
  It doesn't take a genius to spot the teams that will finagle to get him.
  The answer to the second question appears to be an analyst who is quoted heavily in the report and seems to be the only real source for the fact that Plame somehow finagled to get Wilson the trip.
  These are really things that researchers will set up and finagle on their own in the lab.
  Synonyms
  manoeuvre, ease, edge, manipulate, work, steer

Origin

1920s (originally US): from dialect fainaigue ‘cheat’; perhaps from Old French fornier ‘deny’.

单词	finagle
释义	Definition of finagle in English: finagle verb fɪˈneɪɡ(ə)lfəˈneɪɡ(ə)l [with object]US informal 1Obtain by dishonest or devious means. Ted attended all the football games he could finagle tickets for Example sentencesExamples It'll be up to me to finagle a new pair out of my dad's checkbook by the time Prom rolls around. If there were even a hint that the White House was finagling a release date like this today, it would be treated like a minor scandal. Witt says his agency has finagled some funds from the DHS, although it has been ‘through the back door, ‘he says.’ Back then, many companies were finagling their numbers to make the results seem better. Of course, finagling free stuff can get you only so far. We should be in France, of course, but our teacher is wily, and has finagled for us a few days in England first. 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. The following organizations are especially helpful at finagling the rules toward the insurance industry's cause. I knew you were single and available and working at Charisma, so I finagled an invitation to the Elliotts' New Year's Eve party from Cullen. Two days before the April draft, Donovan finagled her second critical move. Well somehow we were able to finagle our way out of it and I won the game with double three. Speaking of Wilcox, the Rockets finagled a private workout with the chiseled Maryland power forward after he completed his three general workout sessions in New York, Chicago and Phoenix. 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. We all get opportunities, but when presented with hers, Martha used it for all it was worth, finally finagling a book deal in the process. That some leaders, as the weekend began, seemed to want to finagle enactment of the constitution anyway demonstrates how much some of them don't get it. They are finagling varying levels of credit from their schools for their work at Microsoft; still, it's unclear whether either of them will see much of academia in the future. He falls for the daughter of the cop who busted him, but then gets in hot water after finagling his way into a high-profile execution and taking a picture with a hidden camera. Not wanting to play in Cleveland and give up his many business interests in the Boston area, Harrelson ‘retired’ for 48 hours, finagling a new two-year contract from the Indians during his brief layoff. In his Tuesday column, Paul Krugman hits the big question that shames every reporter who hasn't posed it to the president or whichever other privatizers they can finagle a minute with. 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. Synonyms deceive, trick, dupe, outwit, fool, delude, cheat, take in, bluff, hoax, mislead, misguide, lead on, defraud, double-cross, swindle, gull, get the better of 1.1no object Act in a dishonest or devious manner. they wrangled and finagled over the fine points Example sentencesExamples Any attempt to finagle with the formula would have ruined the simplicity of its basic premise. The answer to the second question appears to be an analyst who is quoted heavily in the report and seems to be the only real source for the fact that Plame somehow finagled to get Wilson the trip. 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. It doesn't take a genius to spot the teams that will finagle to get him. 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. These are really things that researchers will set up and finagle on their own in the lab. Synonyms manoeuvre, ease, edge, manipulate, work, steer Derivatives finagler nounfɪˈneɪɡ(ə)ləfəˈneɪɡ(ə)lər US informal But now, according to a national survey by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, your jolly banker has shifted from being just a slight-of-hand finagler of interest rates… to an outright hold-up artist. Example sentencesExamples Please, one otherwise friendly reviewer once pleaded, enough with these ‘creeps, drips, jerks, phonies, fussbudgets, finaglers and fuddy-duddies.’ With George's cuts, the agency is no match for the corporate finaglers. In the World of crime there are thieves in the streets and thieves in the suites, there are bank robbers and banks that rob, there are muggers, murderers, polluters, and finaglers - all kinds and all levels of crime. To my mind, this guy has a great art collection, he's versed in everything and he had to be a finagler because somehow he kept his life fairly free within that kind of government. Origin 1920s (originally US): from dialect fainaigue 'cheat'; perhaps from Old French fornier 'deny'. Rhymes bagel, Hegel, inveigle, Schlegel Definition of finagle in US English: finagle verbfəˈnāɡ(ə)lfəˈneɪɡ(ə)l [with object]US informal 1Obtain (something) by devious or dishonest means. Ted attended all the football games he could finagle tickets for Example sentencesExamples If there were even a hint that the White House was finagling a release date like this today, it would be treated like a minor scandal. The following organizations are especially helpful at finagling the rules toward the insurance industry's cause. He falls for the daughter of the cop who busted him, but then gets in hot water after finagling his way into a high-profile execution and taking a picture with a hidden camera. 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. Not wanting to play in Cleveland and give up his many business interests in the Boston area, Harrelson ‘retired’ for 48 hours, finagling a new two-year contract from the Indians during his brief layoff. We all get opportunities, but when presented with hers, Martha used it for all it was worth, finally finagling a book deal in the process. Two days before the April draft, Donovan finagled her second critical move. 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. I knew you were single and available and working at Charisma, so I finagled an invitation to the Elliotts' New Year's Eve party from Cullen. Back then, many companies were finagling their numbers to make the results seem better. Witt says his agency has finagled some funds from the DHS, although it has been ‘through the back door, ‘he says.’ 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. It'll be up to me to finagle a new pair out of my dad's checkbook by the time Prom rolls around. Of course, finagling free stuff can get you only so far. They are finagling varying levels of credit from their schools for their work at Microsoft; still, it's unclear whether either of them will see much of academia in the future. In his Tuesday column, Paul Krugman hits the big question that shames every reporter who hasn't posed it to the president or whichever other privatizers they can finagle a minute with. We should be in France, of course, but our teacher is wily, and has finagled for us a few days in England first. That some leaders, as the weekend began, seemed to want to finagle enactment of the constitution anyway demonstrates how much some of them don't get it. Well somehow we were able to finagle our way out of it and I won the game with double three. Speaking of Wilcox, the Rockets finagled a private workout with the chiseled Maryland power forward after he completed his three general workout sessions in New York, Chicago and Phoenix. Synonyms deceive, trick, dupe, outwit, fool, delude, cheat, take in, bluff, hoax, mislead, misguide, lead on, defraud, double-cross, swindle, gull, get the better of 1.1no object Act in a devious or dishonest manner. they wrangled and finagled over the fine points Example sentencesExamples 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. 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. Any attempt to finagle with the formula would have ruined the simplicity of its basic premise. It doesn't take a genius to spot the teams that will finagle to get him. The answer to the second question appears to be an analyst who is quoted heavily in the report and seems to be the only real source for the fact that Plame somehow finagled to get Wilson the trip. These are really things that researchers will set up and finagle on their own in the lab. Synonyms manoeuvre, ease, edge, manipulate, work, steer Origin 1920s (originally US): from dialect fainaigue ‘cheat’; perhaps from Old French fornier ‘deny’.
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