finagle
Example Sentences
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Hummel is one of the few who relish diagnosing their problems, taking them apart and finagling them in and out of trucks.
While the film takes a clever yet light bit of finagling to find online, it’s worth the search: “A Diva’s Christmas Carol” is a life-altering, life-affirming event movie to rival even the best Dickens alteration.
From Salon
I don’t know how these guys finagled that.
He had finagled some blank report cards and used them to bring home self-inserted high marks.
From Los Angeles Times
“I hated being a lawyer. My parents worked as brokers at Oppenheimer securities. They managed to finagle me a job. It’s not pretty but that’s what happened.”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
