intriguer — meaning in English

English meaning

• connive verb To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
• finagle verb To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.
• intrigue noun A secret plot or scheme, often involving deception.

Senses

intriguer is used for these senses in English:

• connive (intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire. [from mid 17th c.]
• finagle (transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.
• intrigue (intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
• intrigue (transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.

connive — full definition

1. verb To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
2. verb Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
3. verb Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
4. verb To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.

finagle — full definition

1. verb To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.
2. verb To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.
3. verb To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)

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