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FINAGLE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they finagle ... he / she / it finagles
Past simple: finagled
Past participle: finagled
-ing form: finagling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "finagle" is one way to...):
accomplish; achieve; attain; reach (to gain with effort)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody something
Derivation:
finagler (a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods)
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