finagle
Example Sentences
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B.J. insists, underscoring his point about the influence of funk and rock music by squeezing in an Earth, Wind & Fire concert during which he finagles an excuse to join them onstage.
From Los Angeles Times
“Obsessed,” he finagled his way onto the set and into a job.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
