0 past simple and past participle of wangle --
1 to succeed in getting or doing something by persuading someone or by being clever in some way: --
It is a wangled price—wangled by the millers and importers, simply because they were set free to spend our currency upon overseas imports first of all.
Up to the early 1980s, the service's success tended to be measured by how big a budget could be wangled from the centre and how quickly it could be spent.
The way in which the voting was "wangled" did not give them the opportunity.
They have something that they really believe in, and they cannot be wangled out of it by some trick solution which everybody sees through.
Figures have been read out to-night and there has not been any attempt to disprove them, although they have been "wangled" a bit.
I have little doubt that expense accounts are "wangled".
They have wangled that by taking more account of economic factors in the indices for the elderly, residential care and social services.
It can be wangled in every sort of way.
