finagle

1. (transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.Examples: "finagle a day off work"; "She finagled her way around so that her arms were now clasped around his neck. So as not to cause a scene, Jason began to sway with her as if they had intended to dance. “Where's your counterpart tonight, Mandy?” he asked with a sly smile. “I thought you and Carl Maycomb were seeing each other.” Mandy answered with a “humph,” indicating she didn't want to talk about Carl."; "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."Synonyms: fainaigue, wangletransitive

2. (transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.Examples: "finagled his way out of a ticket by pretending to be on the way to a funeral, distraught"; "Down the third-floor hallway, she noticed that the police tape had been removed from George Vandercloop's door. Did that mean Sunrise Village was now free to rent it to a new tenant? She tried the door knob and found it locked. Not that she expected she'd find anything more in the apartment than she'd seen the one time she'd finagled her way inside. Murder by chloroform didn't leave much evidence behind. She U-turned, made her way to the door with “Helen Dorgan” printed on [it] ..."Synonyms: fainaigue, wangletransitive

3. (ambitransitive) To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)Examples: "shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes."ambitransitive