finagle

Verb

Verb Forms: finagled, finagling, finagles

To obtain something by clever, usually dishonest, means.
achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.
To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.
To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)

Examples

finagle a day off work
finagled his way out of a ticket by pretending to be on the way to a funeral, distraught
He tried to finagle a seven-letter bingo out of a messy tile rack.
shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.

Origin / Etymology

Americanism from the 1920s, perhaps combining an alteration of fainaigue (“to renege”) with the suffix + -le (“frequentative”), possibly influenced by inveigle; compare haggle.

Synonyms

manage, wangle, fainaigue

Scrabble Score: 11

finagle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
finagle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
finagle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

finagle: valid Words With Friends Word