FINAGLE Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

finagle

verb

fə-ˈnā-gəl

Definition of finagle

as in to negotiate

to plan out usually with subtle skill or care let me look at my schedule and see if I can't finagle a visit to the museum

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as in to cheat

to use dishonest methods to achieve a goal she'll finagle until she gets exactly what she wants

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Recent Examples of finagle After Lestat finagles his way into becoming the King Raj of Mardi Gras in 1940, the vampire trio throws an extravagant bash that ends in a bloodbath. — Tiffany Kelly, Entertainment Weekly, 3 June 2026 In Europe with friends, Reed finagled his way into the Venice Film Festival in 1965 and interviewed Buster Keaton and Jean-Paul Belmondo. — Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026 Try finagling these parts out, or read the manual for your model to see if this is an option. — Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano, The Spruce, 11 May 2026 That's a reasonable take, but getting to the point of expanding the postseason once again is going to take some finagling at this time. — Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for finagle

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As Kroenke and Moreno negotiated a sale, change was already underway.

— Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Ironically, the aesthetic language of the old colonial overlords helped negotiate between conflicting sensitivities and aspirations.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of negotiate

Verb

Written and rendered by dudes who longed for unlimited success, these are songs about cheating and being cheated on and trying but failing to be content, or love as lived amid capitalist indulgence.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 30 Aug. 2026
Cheaters gonna cheat The first step was creating a message board that allowed the agents to pass notes to each other.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of cheat

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The case turned into a years-long legal saga, with multiple people convicted of their roles in arranging the hit, including Wendi’s brother, Charlie Adelson, and her mother, Donna.

— Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
Britain’s populist Reform UK said two senior aides to leader Nigel Farage stepped down on Friday after an undercover investigation alleged the party had broken electoral law by arranging for a foreign donor to pay for political polling.

— NBC news, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of arrange

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Last Wednesday, Meta reached a settlement with the attorneys general of forty-seven states, who had sued it for illegally manipulating the attention of children.

— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
The finding could matter for quantum computers, where lasers are used to manipulate qubits and even tiny changes in their interactions can affect the accuracy of quantum operations.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026

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