Verb

(finagl)

To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods.

...finagle a day off from work.

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, year=2012 , date=May 24 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3 , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Sequels to fish-out-of-water comedies make progressively less sense the longer a series continues. By the time Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles rolled around in 2001, 15 years after the first Crocodile Dundee became a surprise blockbuster, the title character had been given an awfully long time to grow acclimated to those kooky Americans. Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith’s stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones.}}

(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.

Verb

(wangl)

To obtain through manipulative or deceitful methods.

* "if a country such as China decided to wangle various concessions out of the US government" [http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/21941.html]

To falsify, as records.

To achieve through contrivance or cajolery.

* "manages to wangle his way into the investigation team" [http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2007/1/28/movies/16676327&sec=movies]