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Wangle   /wˈæŋgəl/   Listen
Wangle

verb
1.
Achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods.  Synonyms: finagle, manage.
2.
Tamper, with the purpose of deception.  Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent.  "Cook the books" , "Falsify the data"
noun
1.
An instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery.  Synonym: wangling.



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"Wangle" Quotes from Famous Books



... cackled Furneaux delightedly. "I'll wangle that in on a respected colleague of mine, who is a whale at deducing a proposition from given premises, but cannot induce a general fact from particular instances to save his life ... Now, stifle your romantic frenzy, Mr. Grant, and listen to me. If you ...
— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy

... Bellews. He picked up the two machines. "Don't get me started about the kinda guys that wangle headquarters-company jobs! They got a special talent for fallin' soft. But they ...
— The Machine That Saved The World • William Fitzgerald Jenkins



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