Thesaurus / wangle
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Other secretaries had used their nearness to him to wangle acting or dancing or singing assignments on other and lesser shows.
OPERATION: OUTER SPACEWILLIAM FITZGERALD JENKINSWangle; the handful of straw a thatcher grasps in his left hand from time to time while thatching, twisted up tight at one end.
ENGLISH AS WE SPEAK IT IN IRELANDP. W. JOYCEI had a specially bad one, and managed with great skill to wangle a fortnight's sick leave in Paris.
FANNY GOES TO WARPAT BEAUCHAMPAnd the old Cats said, "Be particularly careful not to meddle with a clangle-wangle if you should see one."
NONSENSE BOOKSEDWARD LEARBut you've not managed badly to wangle a 'second', have you, Snowy and Daddles?
LOYAL TO THE SCHOOLANGELA BRAZILLook here, you'd better wangle yourselves off before it gets about who you are.
A POPULAR SCHOOLGIRLANGELA BRAZILJerry—a gay and reckless being—had fell designs on the Flying Corps, the very first moment he could 'wangle it.'
FAR TO SEEKMAUD DIVERIt had taken him until his senior midterm vacation to wangle an invitation to the dome-house on Luna.
THE COSMIC COMPUTERHENRY BEAM PIPERNow, it is impossible to "wangle" a man who sits over you with a reflecting mirror screwed into his right eye.
CAUGHT BY THE TURKSFRANCIS YEATS-BROWNSo our two heroes wangle their way in, and fall into the arms of the q-b by the Naples train.
SEA AND SARDINIAD. H. LAWRENCEWORDS RELATED TO WANGLE
- angle
- arrange
- cause
- come up with
- con
- conceive
- concoct
- contrive
- control
- cook
- create
- direct
- doctor
- effect
- encompass
- finagle
- jockey
- machinate
- manage
- maneuver
- manipulate
- negotiate
- operate
- organize
- originate
- plan
- plant
- play games
- plot
- pull strings
- pull wires
- put one on
- put one over
- put over
- put through
- rig
- scam
- scheme
- set up
- superintend
- supervise
- swing
- upstage
- wangle
- work
- accessed
- accomplished
- acquired
- annexed
- attained
- bagged
- bought into
- bought off
- bought out
- brought
- brought in
- built up
- came by
- captured
- cash in on
- chalked up
- clean up
- cleared
- compassed
- copped
- drew
- earned
- educed
- effected
- elicited
- evoked
- extorted
- extracted
- fetched
- gained
- gleaned
- got hands on
- grabbed
- had
- hustled
- inherited
- landed
- locked up
- made
- made a buy
- made a killing
- netted
- obtained
- parlayed
- picked up
- procured
- pulled
- racked up
- realized
- reaped
- received
- scored
- secured
- snagged
- snapped up
- snowballed
- succeeded to
- took
- wangled
- won
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