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finagle

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Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
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fi=na=gle

CIDE DICTIONARY

finaglev. i. & t. 
     to achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

finagle, v.intr. & tr. colloq. act or obtain dishonestly.

Derivative
finagler n.
Etymology
dial. fainaigue cheat

THESAURUS

finagle

angle, beat, beguile of, bilk, brew, bunco, burn, cabal, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, collude, complot, con, concoct, connive, conspire, contrive, cook up, countermine, counterplot, cozen, crib, defraud, diddle, do in, do out of, engineer, euchre, finesse, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, frame, frame up, fudge, gerrymander, gouge, gull, gyp, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, intrigue, jockey, lay a plot, machinate, maneuver, manipulate, mulct, operate, pack the deal, pigeon, play games, plot, practice fraud upon, pull strings, rig, rook, scam, scheme, screw, sell gold bricks, shave, shortchange, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, thimblerig, throw a fight, victimize, wangle

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