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Contrived   /kəntrˈaɪvd/   Listen
Contrived

adjective
1.
Showing effects of planning or manipulation.
2.
Artificially formal.  Synonyms: artificial, hokey, stilted.  "Contrived coyness" , "A stilted letter of acknowledgment" , "When people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"


Contrive

verb
(past & past part. contrived; pres. part. contriving)
1.
Make or work out a plan for; devise.  Synonyms: design, plan, project.  "Design a new sales strategy" , "Plan an attack"
2.
Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort.  Synonyms: devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent.
3.
Put or send forth.  Synonyms: cast, project, throw.  "The setting sun threw long shadows" , "Cast a spell" , "Cast a warm light"



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"Contrived" Quotes from Famous Books



... heard enough. He noted that the table was gay with cut flowers, and a neat waitress had evidently been detailed by the management to look after these distinguished guests; Marigny's stage setting for his first decisive move was undoubtedly well contrived. It was delightfully pastoral—a charming bit of rural England—and, as such, eminently calculated to impress ...
— Cynthia's Chauffeur • Louis Tracy
... They had both contrived to make it difficult. The barrier was growing. Both realised it, and Nancy was stirred more than she knew. She had seen this man and hurried over to him. She had purposely denied him for two weeks, but the sight of him on the promenade had been irresistible. Now—now ...
— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum
... has contrived, even in circumstances of cruel disadvantage, to present a wonderfully minute and impressive series of pictures of the life, manners, and customs of the Tibetans. No less powerful and vivid are ...
— In the Forbidden Land • Arnold Henry Savage Landor
... was unable to find a door; there was no perceptible entrance anywhere excepting the circular windows, which, however, were all open. Summoning his followers to his assistance, he made them give him a "back;" and, scrambling up on their shoulders, he at length contrived to raise himself to the level of these openings and to look in. He saw a great many levers, and knobs, and buttons, and short lengths of insulated wire; in fact, he got a glimpse of pretty nearly all the apparatus contained in the pilothouse; but that did ...
— The Log of the Flying Fish - A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure • Harry Collingwood
... encourage one to turn it to a prediction. The third and last (which is the great one) is, that almost all of them, being infinite in number, have been impostures, and by idle and crafty brains merely contrived and feigned, after ...
— Essays - The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. - Verulam Viscount St. Albans • Francis Bacon


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