Manipulate — falsify (a situation etc)

Usage examples of wangle.

The city would have been ringed in any event, whether Gurd had been wangled out the jug or not.

For now, he needed to get as much rest as possible until Shoshana wangled an invitation from Is al Mana to visit Baghdad.

Linda called a wangle of wampuses that moved slowly past, also on their way north, and strained the minnow-like fish from their path as they went, gray and interminable and, Kirk thought, marvelous and perhaps marvelously wise.

Frenchman, Sir AH had drawn the wetted loads from his pistols, recharged and reprimed them, dried off his sword, borrowed a helmet and a spikebacked boarding ax, and wangled a place in the very first wave of boarders to clamber up onto the bow of the enemy vessel.

Frenchman, Sir Ali had drawn the wetted loads from his pistols, recharged and reprimed them, dried off his sword, borrowed a helmet and a spike-backed boarding ax, and wangled a place in the very first wave of boarders to clamber up onto the bow of the enemy vessel.

He took himself down to the police station to try to wangle his old cop buddies into letting him look at the old Bowditch missing person file.

Back home I wangled an appointment to Patuxent River, which is three times as good as they told us.

John Wangle comes to be in New York with these bloodhounds is quite a story, indeed.

Georgia when the bloodhounds are tracking down a bad nigger, and this guy figures it will be a wonderful idea to take John Wangle and the dogs to New York and hire them out to the movies to track down the villains in the pictures.

But when they get to New York, it seems the movies have other arrangements for tracking down their villains, and the guy runs out of scratch and blows away, leaving John Wangle and the bloodhounds stranded.

I never before see Regret so much interested in any situation as he is in John Wangle and the bloodhounds, but personally I am getting very tired of them, because the one that is called Nip finally wakes up and starts chewing on my leg, thinking it is maybe more steak, and when I kick him in the snoot, John Wangle scowls at me, and Regret says only very mean guys are unkind to dumb animals.

Naturally Nip and Tuck become very fond of Regret, but they are by no means as fond of him as John Wangle, because John is commencing to fat up very nicely, and the bloodhounds are also taking on weight.

John Wangle leads Nip and Tuck up to Marvin Clay, and they snuffle him all over, because it seems bloodhounds are quite accustomed to dead guys.

Strolling into the Club Carioca, The Shadow, by seemingly being hard to satisfy as to a table location, managed to wangle one close to Beak's office.

Even if we could somehow wangle Robbie's law degree, BAD, Bar Admissions and Discipline, would never license someone whom they'd inevitably discover had been illegally masquerading as a lawyer for the last twenty years.