verb

1. To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.

   “finagle a day off work”

2. To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.

   “finagled his way out of a ticket by pretending to be on the way to a funeral, distraught”

3. To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)

   “...shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.”