fainaigue

To achieve or obtain (something) by complicated or deceitful methods; to finagle, to wangle.

[Edmund] Richardson's contract lapsed in 1871, but five years later the almost incredible Jones Hamilton, who played with plantations, race tracks, railroads, and steamboats as a reckless boy plays with marbles, fainaigued a similar agreement.

The Swabian abbots were in this way fainaigued into choosing [Adam] Adami, but this arrangement still left him without the so-called Virilstimme or final vote.

To cheat or deceive (someone).

He agreed with the boy for a month at £4 a-year, and he went away and feneaged that boy, and never took him nor paid him.

[H]e was doing a stitch of time in Ohio for embezzlement and for fainaiguing a good-hearted Jack under the alias Joseph […]

To evade work or shirk responsibility.

To fail to keep a promise; to renege.

To renege (“break one's commitment to follow suit when capable”).

When Mr. Simpson had spoken of the "Jack of Oaks" (meaning the Knave of Clubs), or had said "fainaiguing" (where others said "revoking"), we had pretended not to notice it, until at length we actually did not.