FINAGLING
Definition
FINAGLING is the present participle of FINAGLE.
verb FINAGLE: achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods.
Examples
- “finagle a day off work”
- “finagled his way out of a ticket by pretending to be on the way to a funeral, distraught”
- “...shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.”