Definition of "finagler" [finagler]

• A person who finagles; a cheat or swindler (noun)

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• "The play, written by Rattigan in 1963, takes place on an autumn evening in 1934 as Gregor Antonescu ( Frank Langella ), a finagler on the brink of economic collapse and arrest, visits the Greenwich Village apartment of his son, Basil (Adam Driver), for one last-ditch, furtive business meeting to save his own hide."
• "Funny how that conservative computer guru who was Roves data finagler happened to die in a plane crash the very day before he was subpeonaed to testify ..."
• "A finagler is one who knows the ins and outs of power brokerage and favor exchange, who finds ways to exploit the weaknesses of others, who knows how to use indirection to gain leverage and win some small but useful advantage."