finagle
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- v achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
- While polls show that only 12% of Japanese support the LDP, chances are the party will finagle a way to stay in power after the parliamentary election scheduled for June 25.
- If he manages to finagle his way to the presidency, his Administration is likely to prove true a dark saying: When you want it bad, you get it bad.
- The movie tells the tale of Philippe Abrams, a manager in France's postal system whose efforts to finagle a transfer to the sunny Riviera go wildly wrong.