wangle
verb (used with object)
to bring about, accomplish, or obtain by scheming or underhand methods.
wangles
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present tense formof wangle (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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In the days just before World War I, the pair wangles an invitation to a stately castle, hoping to vindicate a cook suspected in the death of an earlier guest there.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2017
Maura returns to her old house and finds Ali and Sarah preparing for their festival trip, onto which she wangles herself a spot.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2015
He abandons an academia-bound path, and, despite his “father’s odor among the old guard,” wangles a job offer from a shadowy HQ-linked businessman.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2015
When Scotty wangles an audience with the all-powerful Bennie in Bennie’s New York office, he arrives armed with a fish that he caught in the East River.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2010
He was always finding out little wangles that he wasn't supposed to see.
From Malcolm Sage, Detective by Herbert George Jenkins
