wangleinformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Getting, receiving and accepting
acceptance
acquirable
acquire
acquisition
awardee
carve
draw
earn
get back
get out of something
get/lay/put your hands on someoneidiom
glom onto something/someone
go to someone
pocket
score
screw
screw something out of someone
seize
seize on/upon something
snap something up
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Examples of finagling
finagling
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
It was corporate power and financial
finagling that interested this complex man....
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The
finagling has simply been rampant.
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