| 单词 | finagle |
| 释义 | finagle (once / 57656 pages) v When you finagle, you get out of something using devious methods, like when you pretend you're sick to avoid taking a pop quiz. Finagle is a word with a usually negative connotation, as it means to get something by being dishonest or tricking someone. To get a student discount from a bookstore by pretending you're a student is to finagle the store clerk. Finagle might also mean to get your way by being clever, as when you convince your sister that what she really wants for her birthday is that video game you've been dreaming of for months. WORD FAMILYfinagle: finagled, finagler, finagles, finagling+/finagler: finaglers USAGE EXAMPLESHe introduced Nabokov to his first American publisher and finagled him a Guggenheim fellowship. Slate(Dec 20, 2016) During her eight-year tenure, Fernandez was unable to finagle the attendance from Williams and other top players needed to consistently contend for the title. New York Times(Dec 13, 2016) Yiannopoulous said colleges don’t want to say no outright, “so they gerrymander, finagle, come up with weird strategies to try to damage the event.” Washington Post(Oct 25, 2016) v achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods Syn|Hyper manage, wangle accomplish, achieve, attain, reach to gain with effort |
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