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fi·na·gle (f

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v. fi·na·gled, fi·na·gling, fi·na·gles Informal

v.tr.

1. To obtain or achieve by indirect, usually deceitful methods: finagle a day off from work.

2. To cheat; swindle: shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.

v.intr.

To use crafty, deceitful methods.

[Probably from dialectal fainaigue, to cheat.]

fi·nagler n.

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Noun

finagler - a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods

wangler

beguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

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