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Finagled

To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.

📖 Definitions of "Finagled"

verb
  1. 1

    To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.

    "finagle a day off work"

  2. 2

    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"

  3. 3

    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."

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