fenagle

Verb

finagle (third-person singular simple present finagles, present participle finagling, simple past and past participle finagled)

1. (transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.
   • finagle a day off work

   Synonyms:

   fainaigue, wangle

2. (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

   Synonyms:

   fainaigue, wangle, game

3. (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.