finaglers

Please, Senator Biden, just shut up for a while ... you are one of the front-runners in the race to enable the Bush finaglers to find new 'reasons' to thwart the expressed will of the American electorate.

Dem Senators Weigh In On Blair's Plan To Withdraw From Iraq 2009

Wherever you find hired guns, you also will find people playing the Criminal role: some lawyers, lobbyists, politicians, financial finaglers, and so forth.

Now What? Nicholas Lore 2008

Wherever you find hired guns, you also will find people playing the Criminal role: some lawyers, lobbyists, politicians, financial finaglers, and so forth.

Now What? Nicholas Lore 2008

And we end up a bunch of duplicitous, cowardly political finaglers -- and the slaughter continues, and God knows where it will go next.

Supplementally the People Lose Again 2007

The finaglers of Wall Street were now joined by the finaglers of international finance.

America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002

That is why new calls have arisen to change the law so that bribe takers, kickback schemers, pay-to-play chiselers and other finaglers holding public office do not enjoy the same retirement privileges as their honest colleagues.

NYT > Home Page By CLYDE HABERMAN 2011

That is why new calls have arisen to change the law so that bribe takers, kickback schemers, pay-to-play chiselers and other finaglers holding public office do not enjoy the same retirement privileges as their honest colleagues.

NYT > Home Page By CLYDE HABERMAN 2011

But behind Rummy's back, the REMFs (rear-echelon master finaglers) at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., began work on a new doctrine that would that would snatch the strategic rug out from under the space-age services and from Rummy himself.

Antiwar.com Original Jeff Huber 2010

Chief among the broadcloth-suited railroad finaglers of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific were Thomas Durant, Jay Cooke, Grenville Dodge, Oliver Ames, Collis Huntington, their relatives, friends and political connections, abetted by a carload of criminal-minded congressmen.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Chief among the broadcloth-suited railroad finaglers of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific were Thomas Durant, Jay Cooke, Grenville Dodge, Oliver Ames, Collis Huntington, their relatives, friends and political connections, abetted by a carload of criminal-minded congressmen.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011