verb · transitive · rare

finagle

finagle · finagles · finagled · finagling

жульничать

erschleichen, ermogeln, mogeln, betrügen

To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive effortsTo obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.

/fɪˈneɪ.ɡəl/

» She wasn't too keen on coming to the party, but he finally finagled a promise out of her to come.

Meaning

3 senses

(transitive)To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.
finagle a day off work
erschleichen, ermogeln
(transitive)To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.
finagled his way out of a ticket by pretending to be on the way to a funeral, distraught
achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
(ambitransitive)To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)
shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.
mogeln, betrügen, fudeln
жульничатьžulʹničatʹ

Examples

1 sentences

She wasn't too keen on coming to the party, but he finally finagled a promise out of her to come.
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Translations

6 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

(transitive, intransitive) to cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods (often with "out of"):

Deutsch

By meaning 2

(transitive) to obtain or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods:

(transitive, intransitive) to cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods (often with "out of"):

Origin

Americanism from the 1920s, perhaps combining an alteration of fainaigue (“to renege”) wit

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

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