Finagle vs Fraud - What's the difference?
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To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods.
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(ambitransitive) To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)
* Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
* Alexander Pope
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A person who performs any such trick.
(obsolete) A trap or snare.
* Milton
As verbs the difference between finagle and fraud
is that finagle is to obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods while fraud is (obsolete) to defraud.As a noun fraud is
any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.finagle
English
Verb
(finagl)- ...finagle a day off from work.
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- ...shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.
Derived terms
* finaglerReferences
finagle, The Word Detective, February 12th, 2008
Anagrams
*fraud
English
Noun
(en noun)- If success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.
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- to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud