Finagle

/fɪˈneɪ.ɡəl/

Synonyms for "finagle" (98 found)

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Noun(1 words)

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4 entries

Collocations

6 entries
finagle a contractfinagle a favorfinagle a grantfinagle a loanfinagle accessfinagle funds

Inflections

3 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Translations

14 translations across 8 languages.

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Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 騙取 /骗取 verb ((transitive) to obtain or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods)

Dutch

2 entries
  • ontfutselen verb ((transitive) to obtain or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods)
  • ritselen verb ((transitive) to obtain or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods)

French

3 entries
  • intriguer verb ((transitive) to obtain or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods)
  • magouiller verb ((transitive) to obtain or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods)
  • se faire pistonner verb ((transitive) to obtain or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods)

German

2 entries
  • ermogeln verb ((transitive) to obtain or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods)
  • erschleichen verb ((transitive) to obtain or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • becsap verb ((transitive) to obtain or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods)
  • rászed verb ((transitive) to obtain or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods)

Italian

1 entries
  • fregare verb ((transitive) to obtain or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods)

Polish

2 entries
  • kombinować verb ((transitive) to obtain or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods)
  • skombinować verb ((transitive) to obtain or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods)

Spanish

1 entries
  • enchufar verb ((transitive) to obtain or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods)

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

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finagle a day off work

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She finagled her way around so that her arms were now clasped around his neck. So as not to cause a scene, Jason began to sway with her as if they had intended to dance. “Where's your counterpart tonight, Mandy?” he asked with a sly smile. “I thought you and Carl Maycomb were seeing each other.” Mandy answered with a “humph,” indicating she didn't want to talk about Carl.

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Sequels to fish-out-of-water comedies make progressively less sense the longer a series continues. By the time Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles rolled around in 2001, 15 years after the first Crocodile Dundee became a surprise blockbuster, the title character had been given an awfully long time to grow acclimated to those kooky Americans. Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith’s stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones.

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If she encountered an obstacle she could not navigate past, she would spend hours backtracking to find a path she and her cart could navigate. When they were invariably overturned along the way, she shouldered her way under the bars and pushed herself up, flipping it over and depositing herself in the cart. She finagled her way out, slowly and methodically replaced the spilled contents back in and went about her way She stood outside a hair salon for two days...

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