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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery [syn: wangle, wangling] v
1: achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods [syn: wangle, finagle, manage]
2: tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent]

Merriam Webster's

verb (wangled; wangling) Etymology: perhaps alteration of waggle Date: 1888 transitive verb to resort to trickery or devious methods intransitive verb 1. to adjust or manipulate for personal or fraudulent ends 2. to make or get by devious means ; finagle <wangle an invitation> • wangler noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. colloq. --v.tr. 1 (often refl.) to obtain (a favour etc.) by scheming etc. (wangled himself a free trip). 2 alter or fake (a report etc.) to appear more favourable. --n. the act or an instance of wangling. Derivatives: wangler n. Etymology: 19th-c. printers' sl.: orig. unkn.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(wangles, wangling, wangled) If you wangle something that you want, you manage to get it by being clever or persuading someone. (INFORMAL) We managed to wangle a few days' leave... He had wangled his way into the country without a visa... I asked the Captain to wangle us three tickets to Athens... Amanda had wangled a job for Robyn with the council. VERB: V n, V way prep/adv, V n n, V n for n

Moby Thesaurus

angle, argue into, arouse, brew, bring forth, bring out, bring over, bring round, bring to light, bring to reason, cabal, call forth, call out, call up, captivate, charm, collude, complot, con, concoct, connive, conspire, contrive, convince, cook up, countermine, counterplot, deduce, derive, drag out, draw forth, draw out, draw over, educe, elicit, engineer, evoke, finagle, finesse, frame, frame up, gain, gain over, gerrymander, get from, get out of, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, hook, hook in, induce, intrigue, jockey, lay a plot, machinate, maneuver, manipulate, obtain, operate, outtalk, persuade, play games, plot, prevail on, prevail upon, prevail with, procure, pull strings, rig, rouse, scheme, secure, sell, sell one on, stimulate, summon forth, summon up, sway, talk into, talk over, wangle into, wangle out of, wear down, win, win over, winkle out, worm out, worm out of