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"finagle" Definitions
  1. finagle (something) to behave dishonestly or to obtain something dishonestly

116 Sentences With "finagle"

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Not everyone can finagle a hosting gig into the presidency.
Others say cups leak no matter how they finagle it.
Hillary Clinton's proposals would only invite more dilution and finagle.
You can scam, hustle, bilk, gyp, flimflam, swindle, swizzle, fleece and finagle.
So if you can finagle a reservation at Langbaan, what should you drink?
I have to finagle some out of Mom just to keep people happy.
Jeezy tried to finagle his way outta paying ... claiming he was never properly served.
At best, they focus on technical fixes to finagle agreements such as CETA through.
So how did the skin suit without a skeleton in it (McConnell) finagle this?
A big company will have a compliance department that can finagle the federal code.
This is not the first time Netflix has managed to finagle an Oscar nomination.
This required Mr. Dead to finagle a chest piece with a tube running through it.
No matter how hard I tried to finagle a smaller-looking tush, its prominence remained.
Trump took full advantage of the presidential debates and campaign coverage to finagle some free advertising.
He fixated on the manner in which Jackson would finagle, coddle, and push his superstar, Michael Jordan.
"I managed to finagle my way into a conversation with her in the checkout line," he said.
In Gabriel's final moment of the episode, however, the writers finagle an ending with genuinely suspenseful heft.
"I don't spend a lot of my time trying to finagle outcomes and screw people," he told CNN.
Given the size and political power of Wall Street, her proposals would only invite more dilution and finagle.
But there's no chance in hell that we didn't at least try and finagle Riverdale tea out of her.
Normally, even after a wash-and-go, I still have to finagle my curls to get them to separate.
What's the best way to get a free seat upgrade or finagle other freebies and perks from you guys?
Kind of feels they could finagle a way for them to work from home for this one but alright.
What's more, while large corporations manage to finagle tax cuts and loopholes through active lobbying, small businesses do not.
One-on-one Dodson time was hard to finagle, but on our final night, after dinner, I found my moment.
Holmes hopes those looks include the opportunity to finagle a bit of love for designers, in the name of diplomacy.
And, not for nothing, it might have even made it harder to finagle the one-handed transfer to his mate.
"I assume we'll be able to finagle something in the stadium where we're all sitting at least closer together," he said.
One is that when he's trying to flatter and finagle, everything is beautiful: countries, cities, people, bills, questions, even chocolate cake.
In theory, however, there's more to lose on this earthly plane, provided the show can find a way to finagle it.
Vincent crossed more boundaries when he called the family to try to finagle information out of them to obtain documents he needed.
That a rich person would finagle a "sweetheart" deal (as this one is often called) is an old trope of American life.
Students had to finagle their partial absence from school that Friday with the principal, some of them missing lunch to be excused.
Decided not to take our advice about cutting the cable cord and instead would rather finagle a better price on your cable package?
It's unclear if he was embellishing then, or if he's trying to finagle his way out of reporting Bitcoin assets to the court.
The kiosk uses a 3-D camera employs a "live-ness detection algorithm" so that shady hackers can't try to finagle the system.
Instead of having any kind of system, individual teachers would somehow finagle their way to get a computer — Someone had a Commodore PET.
Instead of trying to finagle its way out of reforms, the Zelensky government was expected to exercise its reform mandate with Europe's backing.
Partly as a result, imports are subject to exorbitant fees — which only gives importers an incentive to finagle a way to avoid them.
Barrow, enjoying a day off from Dullsville, is able to finagle the butler job, with Carson staying on as a sort of advisor.
But Kalanick has reportedly been telling friends that he's "Steve Jobs-ing it" and wants to finagle his way back into the CEO position.
If you're dedicated to showing your support but can't finagle the funds to get to D.C., there'll be local ways to show your support.
They manage to finagle a deal in which Frank accepts a gun supporter on his ticket in exchange for the leadership supporting Claire's bill.
Our guy also straight-up asks Ray J how bad of a look it is for Offset to try and finagle a threesome WITHOUT Cardi.
I love Daniel Arnold's work, and we've been lucky enough at VICE to finagle him into doing some great projects for us this past year.
He charges upwards of $40 per ride and says he hopes to save enough money to finagle a trip to the United States one day.
But you can finagle your way around that by purchasing a gift subscription and saving it for whenever your own existing membership is set to expire.
They miss the ferry, share a romantic meal on the dock, and finally finagle a way to reach the island in time for Sophie's big day.
After watching Jackson and De Guia finagle their way into each hotspot, you're going to want to do some secret dining detective work of your own.
That said, if you can finagle a cable login out of someone you know, Fox Sports GO has high streaming quality and is easy to use.
So maybe that means taking short naps over the weekend (and even during the week if you can finagle it) to balance out your weekly sleep.
Two months, Miller points out, is a long time to finagle votes, and support for the plan could vary drastically from day-to-day, week-to-week.
Once there he proceeds to run away, scream for ice cream, hand his hat (yet again) to the elephants and finagle his way into the souvenir shop.
But first Mikael must finagle a dowry to finance medical school in Constantinople, so he promises to marry Maral (Angela Sarafyan), a lovely innocent from his village.
Yes, even people who manage to finagle reservations at an unparalleled restaurant like Noma can be asshole-y enough to play Pokemon Go through the entire meal.
So it's possible that Papadopoulos also has a lot to tell Mueller's team about how Kremlin-tied people tried to finagle their way into the heart of Trumpworld.
We get there, we get set up, we find our spots, we try to finagle our way into better spots if we don't like the one we're in.
But then somehow, the ball manages to finagle its way into where it needs to go and the machine continues its onward journey towards delivering... a soda can.
It looked like something powerful had taken hold of the American public, and the government not only disliked it, but was going to finagle an end to it.
Because we have such a rich dataset and no one is really quite sure how we're going to, like, finagle it all into something that they can monetize.
This is the single dude in his generation who has managed to finagle a fucking lasso around the neck of an entire sports league for more than a decade.
DeVos is poised to make it easier for people accused of sexual assault to finagle their way around a system that inherently shames victims and lets abusers off the hook.
RIP Smartcars in the US. What happened when ex-CEO Travis Kalanick tried to finagle his way onto the New York Stock Exchange floor for the upcoming the Uber IPO.
The prime minister says he is open to one, too, but faces potential indictment on corruption charges and is desperate to remain in office so he can finagle legal immunity.
Should Republicans hold power in Texas's state government and manage to finagle an even more GOP-leading map than last time, it could cancel out some Democratic improvements in other states.
Remember how Sony launched the PS3 with "OtherOS" support, so you could install Linux or whatever other PowerPC-compatible OS you could finagle onto your shiny new next-gen gaming system?
You hustle with the ferocity of Venus and Serena combined to the nearest retailer, throw your money at the cashier, and, in great anticipation, finagle the product out of its packaging.
He appears to have made up a job offer from a competitor to finagle a promotion at work, and he covered his frequent absences with stories about his fictitious brain cancer.
Even the most bland, directionless sax solo over the most generic 80s electro-pop tune has an emotional depth and safe harbor to it that I could never finagle language to describe.
Breakout Star: Spencer Pratt, one of Brody's best friends who managed to finagle an executive producer credit and a role on The Hills out of his appearances as Foster's least favorite houseguest.
While Wheeler may not try to finagle a fast food franchise for his wife, he's no different from Pruitt when it comes to shilling for industry and pushing whatever policies they want.
The only things Mr. Simmons wanted but was unable to finagle into Tantris were cryotherapy chambers, which expose the body to temperatures at least 200 degrees below zero Fahrenheit for a few minutes.
Did Paul orchestrate all of it, or some of it, in order to get his grandpa to cough up some money and to finagle his way out of trouble with the Italian mob?
News of these meetings comes from a Washington Post report that cites unnamed sources who say that Facebook is trying to finagle a way to move forward with its plan without pissing off regulators.
McConnell did say the Senate would likely try to finagle funding for President Trump's border wall, but indicated that it was probably not going to consider any other major immigration items before year's end.
This episode primarily tracks Darlene and her brother, Elliot, as they finagle their way into a secure server farm in order to hack the bank account used by their nemesis, Whiterose, and her Dark Army.
" How that happens is "Richard Jewell's" most wince-inducing element, with Scruggs appearing to use sex to finagle information out of the agent -- a sequence disputed by the AJC's current editor, who called it "offensive.
At some point, after tossing and turning for what felt like an eternity, I finally managed to finagle my phone out of my sleeping bag to check the time, expecting it to be 3 a.m.
But the UK might try to finagle an extension, arguing it needs more time to approve a deal, or negotiate more concessions, or buy time in the case of political uncertainty, such as a leadership change.
" There have been so many fatal drug overdoses that Lisman, who uses an examination room in the basement of a local hospital to do autopsies, said he has had to "finagle space to put all the bodies.
Whether it's trying to finagle it up a narrow staircase, a la the favorite '90s sitcom character, or attempting to push it through too-narrow doorways, relocating this PIVOT-al piece of furniture is no easy feat.
Why does it feel like it only rains on our busiest days — the days we're running around from meeting to meeting with coffee and iPhone already in-hand and you somehow need to finagle an an umbrella too.
Click here to view original GIFFor anyone who needs money and also has access to a crane and can somehow finagle an entire ATM machine out of thin air, you now have your blueprint into breaking an ATM open.
Hakeem thinks he can finagle Shyne into signing on the strength of his, Nessa's and Shyne's studio chemistry, but Shyne fans the flames of the bidding war by flaunting the private financials of the contract that Hakeem revealed to him.
" And Mallon's Bush is this much of a brainiac mensch: He's trying to finagle a happy ending for Allie and Ross because he'd failed in Iraq and New Orleans, and thus "felt required to amalgamate … the miniature and the giant.
The band would subsequently bring aboard prominent New York entertainment lawyer Bob Donnelly to finagle their way out of their Noise deal, while Reed St. Mark's friend Christopher Bruckner agreed to become the band's temporary manager and assist the band with their debts.
Weld refused to budge further right, and in the end, he couldn't even finagle an appointment as President Bill Clinton's ambassador to Mexico; arch-conservative Senator Jesse Helms blocked his nomination, reportedly disgusted with Weld's progressive stances on gay rights and abortion.
His wife, Rebecca Pethes, was unable to secure a similar job this year to supplement her own graduate degree, so the couple has struggled to raise their 1-year-old child, Isobel, on Mr. Vincent's annual salary — $16,000 for nine months, $18,000 if he can finagle an extra semester of work.
In Love & Friendship, for better or worse, she's the Walter White of polite British society, charging into quiet drawing rooms with only her self-interest in mind and attempting to finagle her way into an advantageous marriage, all while marrying off her daughter to someone the poor girl has no interest in.
Letter From Europe LONDON — When the calendar clicks around to global events, the Olympics in particular, it could almost be argued that all sport is tribal, at least from the vantage of the world's couches and bars that provide the virtual stadium for those unable to finagle a ticket to Rio de Janeiro.
Whether the plan is to somehow finagle your way into the buzziest party of the month, catch up with your BFFs over photogenic drinks at a cute new spot, crash a downtown DJ set, or get your groove on after your work dinner has wrapped, we've got the ultimate inspiration for your going-out look ahead.
The cops found them wandering around in a sea of more than 70,000 people, lost somewhere between the "Wasteland" stage and the "Metal Market" on this gigantic campground: There's still no word on how they managed to break out of their nursing home, make it all the way to the festival, and somehow finagle their way inside.
Season four teases the idea of Frank and Claire being at odds — which is surely what will happen as the series approaches its finale, whenever that may be — but it's ultimately just so Claire can finagle her way onto Frank's presidential ticket as his running mate, the sort of political marriage the two have always aspired to anyway.
From Alessandra Ambrosio's literal pair of runway-ready butterfly wings that we aren't sure how she managed to finagle into her suitcase(s?), to Martha Hunt and just about every other Angel in attendance who took the opportunity to show off their goods via studded bras and hot shorts alike, there was a lot — or, not a lot — to look at.
As the nation steps away from the cliff of another government shutdown and our policy leaders extend their quarrel about the southern border, here at home, an underpaid early educator is on a school supply run buying materials with their own funds and a child's parents are up late trying to finagle the numbers so they can afford to send their child to "the good preschool" in a neighboring community.
After the completion of the mission, Commander Cunningham attempts to finagle Connery into continuing to work for him, but Connery hypnotizes Cunningham into departing for London immediately and leaving Connery in peace, allowing him, Maya, and an all-female yacht crew (formerly employed by Thayer) to enjoy a relaxing cruise.
In 1936 London, mature showgirl Julia Packett (Greer Garson) leads a precarious life. She pretends to be contemplating suicide in order to finagle some money out of a male friend in order to pay her bills. Then, she receives a wedding invitation from her daughter Susan (Elizabeth Taylor). As a young woman, Julia had married wealthy William Packett (Walter Pidgeon).
Rudbeck and his superior work out the extent to which he can finagle road-building funds from the accounts, but the older man warns Rudbeck that another scandal will destroy his career. The road-building brings Johnson back to Fada. Rudbeck hires him again and Johnson's infectious enthusiasm makes the road-building successful. But Rudbeck discovers that Johnson has been engaged in petty graft and dismisses him.
The Stooges are inventors trying to obtain a patent for their fly-catching invention. Whilst learning they must catch 100,000 flies to get their patent, their conversation is overheard by several crooks across the hallway. Unfortunately, the crooks think Curly has $100,000. A flirtatious woman (Christine McIntyre) who is part of the nest of crooks corners the gullible Curly and tries to finagle the non-existent money out of him.
Wally's obnoxious pals, Eddie Haskell and Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford pick on the Beaver at every opportunity (though Lumpy seems to be more friendly towards the Beaver in the final season). Wally ably defends his brother against their nasty onslaughts. The Beaver is often exploited by others or becomes the victim of malicious persons. In one episode, Wally's classmate Mary Ellen Rogers makes friends with the Beaver in order to finagle a date with Wally.
Max learns that Sam had returned the manuals and tried to claim the deposit for himself. By chance, he runs into an apologetic Sam. With Max's money, Sam is able to finagle them jobs aboard a starship using forged records of their service as crewmen aboard other starships. Max signs on as a steward's mate third class, and then he absorbs the contents of the Stewards' Guild manual using his eidetic memory.
Secretary Hillary Clinton's more modest proposals do not go far enough. They call for a bit more oversight and a few new charges on shadow banking activity, but they leave intact the titanic financial conglomerates that practice most shadow banking. As a result, her plan does not adequately reduce the serious risks our financial system poses to the American economy and to individual Americans. Given the size and political power of Wall Street, her proposals would only invite more dilution and finagle.
Detectives Larry and David are searching for a missing singer in an abandoned trailer park when David is shot at twice and his cellphone takes the bullet that had been headed for his heart. David kills the kidnapper. Then a man, Kevin, comes and tells him that he is taking the singer on a yacht for a few days. The cops finagle an invitation onto the yacht; Kevin is a suspect of other crimes, but their boss has nothing on him.
In early 1937, Krivitsky was recalled but managed to finagle his way out again on foreign assignment. Upon Krivitsky's return, Reiss composed a letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, addressed to Stalin and dated July 17, 1937. He returned the Order of the Red Banner with his letter, stating that to wear the medal "simultaneously with the hangmen of the best representatives of the Russian worker" was beneath his dignity. He went on to condemn the excesses of Stalin's purges and the actions of Soviet state security services.
Sylvester climbs back up as Tweety is carried into the house, while another mover sets Hector's doghouse down on the ground. Sylvester steps down upon the roof of the doghouse as he comes down from the wall, and when Hector sees him, he likewise says: "I tawt I taw a puddytat!" Hector then bites Sylvester's tail and chases him back out to the street. Plotting to get past Hector and finagle his way into the house, Sylvester disguises himself as a lamp, putting a shade on his head.
Evan Peters also appears as Luke Cooper in archival footage from the previous episode. The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. In the episode, Michael Scott (Steve Carell) is forced to have six hours of counseling with Toby Flenderson (Paul Lieberstein) after he physically reprimanded his nephew Luke (Peters), but Michael refuses to make Toby's job easy. Meanwhile, Pam Halpert (Jenna Fischer) attempts to finagle a promotion to office administrator and Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) boycotts the Steamtown Mall after a shop owner refuses to serve him.
It was a short-lived respite from the violence. After a second beating from Greg, Sally took the kids, and what remained of her bank account and fled to Rita's without looking back. Greg, having not paid his rent, was threatened with eviction from the pokey flat over the shop and his life careened out of control. Becoming more and more dishelved the suits looking less smart and his appearance slipping - he turned once again to Maxine who, after a short fashion, cottoned on to his scheme to finagle a free ride and accommodation until something better came along.
673, . The word "poiuyt" appeared on the March 1965 cover of Mad magazine bearing the four-eyed Alfred E. Neuman balancing the impossible fork on his finger with caption "Introducing 'The Mad Poiuyt' " (the last six letters on the top row of QWERTY typewriters, right to left). An anonymously-contributed version described as a "hole location gauge" was printed in the June 1964 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, with the comment that "this outrageous piece of draftsmanship evidently escaped from the Finagle & Diddle Engineering Works" (although something else called a "hole location gauge" had already been patented in 1961). The term "blivet" for the impossible fork was popularized by Worm Runner's Digest magazine.
To this end, he sets off across France, where, over the course of several decades, he begs, endures hardships and humiliations, while regularly returning to Réno to continue the work of reconstruction. But, exploited by those from whom he seeks financial assistance, Pamphile, unconcerned, sees the money he collects slip through his fingers, and his project never comes any closer to completion. Jules and Pamphile, by Hermann-Paul, 1904 When Abbé Jules comes to finagle from Pamphile money he needs for his library, Pamphile indignantly refuses. Not long thereafter, Jules returns to find Pamphile dead, after being crushed from the collapse of the partially constructed chapel, his body already in a state of advanced decomposition.
Twitter has a history of both using and releasing open source software while overcoming technical challenges of their service. A page in their developer documentation thanks dozens of open source projects which they have used, from revision control software like Git to programming languages such as Ruby and Scala. Software released as open source by the company includes the Gizzard Scala framework for creating distributed datastores, the distributed graph database FlockDB, the Finagle library for building asynchronous RPC servers and clients, the TwUI user interface framework for iOS, and the Bower client-side package manager. The popular Twitter Bootstrap web design library was also started at Twitter and is the second most popular repository on GitHub.
Wishing to instill in Albert the artlessness of animals, Jules instructs his young charge to throw away his books. He advises Albert that it is easier to "fabricate a Jesus or Mohammed" than it is to dismantle the adulterated social being that each individual has become so that can return to the original purity of his status as a "Nothing." Jules is a self-contradictory and self-loathing character. He is a bibliomaniac who despises the artificiality of the knowledge found in books; when he comes to finagle from Père Pamphile – an old Trinitarian monk, who is both a double and the opposite of Jules – money he needs for his library, Pamphile indignantly refuses.
Hana is a freelancer of French and Chinese descent who was once a teenage prostitute and a member of a vast criminal organization known as the Triad. In fact, the Triad still claim her as their property, and it is in part to earn enough money to buy back her "contract" that she works such high-risk and high-paying assignments. Brash and edgy with a penchant for sarcasm, Hana is as skillful with her tongue as she is with using firearms and piloting vehicles, able to finagle or flirt her way out of many difficult situations but equally capable of solving problems with weapons if need be. In spite of a demonstrated level of sophistication, she is not above using sex as a weapon.
Pam Halpert (Jenna Fischer) realizes that although she has her dream job of salesman, she just might not be cut out for it after all since she makes few sales and very little money. A chance visit from a vendor gives her an idea to finagle a promotion to office administrator, hopefully for some added income. She informs Gabe of her promotion "from a few months back" and tells him she has not been paid accordingly, to which Gabe promises her he will get the missing wages if she can get all of the department heads to sign off on it. While she is busy convincing everyone that she has become the new administrator, Gabe catches on that she might be lying, and confronts her about it.
Catphishing (spelled with a “ph”) is a type of online deception that involves getting to know someone closely in order to gain access to information or resources, usually in the control of the mark, or to otherwise get control over the conduct of the target. Catfishing (spelled with an “f”), a similar but distinct concept, involves a person creating a social network presence as a sock puppet or fictional person in order to finagle someone into a (usually) romantic relationship. This usually begins online, with the hope or promise of it progressing to real-life romance. This is never the objective of the perpetrator; in general, he is seeking access to the mark's money or resources, or to receive gifts or other consideration from the victim.
One variant (known as O'Toole's corollary of Finagle's law) favored among hackers is a takeoff on the second law of thermodynamics (related to the augmentation of entropy): In the Star Trek episode "Amok Time" (written by Theodore Sturgeon in 1967), Captain Kirk tells Spock, "As one of Finagle's laws puts it: 'Any home port the ship makes will be somebody else's, not mine.'" The term "Finagle's law" was popularized by science fiction author Larry Niven in several stories (for example, Protector [Ballantine Books paperback edition, 4th printing, p. 23]), depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners; this "Belter" culture professed a religion or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy. "Finagle's law" can also be the related belief "Inanimate objects are out to get us", also known as Resistentialism.
R&D; is a critical element in the > progression to the next level economy. The promise of the Hydrogen future > rests in the ability of creative inventors to finagle meager dollars for > advanced concepts, materials, storage and fuel.” He championed an initiative to “change out the entire U.S. government fleet” from fossil fuel to hydrogen vehicles. He encouraged promoting “the “personal perk” exemption from HOV restrictions for Hydrogen fuel vehicles”, which the Commonwealth of Virginia did in 2006, and again by extending the law in 2011. Lastly, Dr. Monetta implored legislators to establish “a 50% tax credit for anything Hydrogen (production, storage, transportation, consumption), allowing Hydrogen to be special and competitive with gasoline.” Dr. Monetta received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Manhattan College, a M.S. in Engineering Administration (Operations research) from the George Washington University, and a Doctorate in Public Administration (R&D; Management) from the University of Southern California.

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