finagler
fuh nayg ler
- n a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods
- He began as a social worker, but he was always more than that: a politician, a finagler, something of a playboy and something of an intellectual, a man who moved with equal ease in .
- Supine on the wall-to-wall carpet lay the master46-year-old Serge Rubinstein, millionaire, financial finagler, satyr and draft dodgerbound, gagged, strangled and quite dead.
- The 68-member court is still at it, but the day is long past when its revelations could cost a finagler his job or even his head.