Crossword clues for finagle
finagle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
finagle \finagle\ v. i. & t. to achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods.
Syn: wangle, manage.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"get dishonestly or deviously," 1926, American English, possibly a variant of English dialectal fainaigue "to cheat or renege" (at cards), which is of unknown origin. Liberman says finagle is from figgle, phonetic variant of fiddle "fidget about," frequentative of fig. Related: Finagled; finagling.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods.
WordNet
Usage examples of "finagle".
When he was teaching, his students began to wonder whether he believed more firmly in Finagle than in Christ.
They spent what remained of their honeymoon on deck, learning how to finagle their way through Ellis Island.
At least, it had been until she learned that Miguel finagled the job for her with Watson Enterprises.
It was a match made in heaven, two masters of finagling public funds for private projects.
And, some way or other, their scintillometers happened to get swapped temporarily for a pair of slightly finagled ones we had on board.
Maybe if she were extra-nice to Dickie Wembley tonight, she could finagle Michael into reserving a suite for her at the King Croesus on Park Avenue.
It took some real finagling to shoehorn that into a regular issue, but it would have been no particular problem in a double.
And, if Flimflam could finagle trouble on Padrugoi, was it safe to send such unreformable personalities to the Station to serve their sentences?
Ben had never been inclined to do it, Ben had worked hard on the legal stuff and the filings, and Ben had finagled a deal with a company repair crew to get the tanks installed.
Wartime Marseilles was such a bubbling stew of political double-dealing, financial corruption, racial and nationalist crisscrossings, refugee agonies and tragedies, and Mediterranean finagling dating back to Phoenician times, that compared to Gaither's daily grind, melodramas and spy yams paled.
He bartered, he finagled, he called in every long-term debt he had out, and in the end every man jack of his team had an automatic rifle of some description and a stack of rounds.
At the age of thirteen he had finagled an apprenticeship in it with a traveling acrobatic troupe then visiting the town of his birth, therewith commencing the peripatetic career he was to pursue so illustriously and which, though it took him far across the face of the earth, never brought him back to his native city.
Since you personally negotiated and signed the original contract, the laws we operate under require us to complete it with you, and involving him would mean a whole new round of legal finagling.
The second alien ship was larger than the first, but estimates of its mass had a high finagle factor, depending on the acceleration (known), fuel consumption (deduced from drive temperature), operating temperature (deduced from the radiation spectrum, whose peak was in the soft x-ray region) and efficiency (pure guesswork).
In the names of Kdapt and Finagle and Allah I summon thee, God tanj it!