finagle
verb (used with object)
to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed byout of ).
finagler
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a word derived from
finagle.
Example Sentences
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Schiff’s signature moment came with the prosecution of Richard Miller, an incompetent finagler who also happened to be an FBI agent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2020
In the 1975 film “Three Days of the Condor” he played another sinister figure — an amoral finagler for a federal spy agency — and got more good notices.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2011
Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas, a veteran finagler, had planned a two-month "inspection trip" overseas and he had asked Johnson to provide air transport for himself and eleven other Congressmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nonetheless, Big Brother seems confident that the days of the finagler and the fudger are numbered.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Without his gifts as a bureaucratic finagler, the shows just wouldn’t have got on. I owe him much. Leave it at that.”
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
