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[ kuhn-trahyvd ] / kənˈtraɪvd / SEE SYNONYMS FOR contrived ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveobviously planned or forced; artificial; strained: a contrived story. Origin of contrivedFirst recorded in 1505–15; contrive + -ed2 OTHER WORDS FROM contrivedcon·triv·ed·ly [kuhn-trahy-vid-lee], /kənˌtraɪ vɪd li/, adverbun·con·trived, adjectivewell-con·trived, adjectiveWords nearby contrivedcon trick, contrite, contrition, contrivance, contrive, contrived, control, control account, control board, control center, control character Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for contrivedBone was a highly competent managing editor, and contrived somehow to squeeze us into the tumultuous Post office. The Stacks: H.L. Mencken on the 1904 Baltimore Fire|H.L. Mencken|October 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST Or, worse, they are contrived to sound tired, perhaps in an attempt to come off as world-weary. U2 Generously Gives Us a Lousy Album, Sucks at the Corporate Teat|Hampton Stevens|September 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST The story is schematic and contrived rather than palpable and lived. Ian McEwan's New Novel Keeps Life at Arm's Length|Nick Romeo|September 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST How contrived that Modern Family would end its season finale with the tried-and-true sitcom trope: a wedding. Modern Family’s Big, Gay (and Important) Wedding|Kevin Fallon|May 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The right always whines about its contrived war on Christmas. The War on Thanksgiving|Dean Obeidallah|November 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST Mary had contrived to quiet her lover with considerable propriety of demeanour. Doctor Thorne|Anthony Trollope He contrived, through Aunt Dilsey, to convey a note to the girl. Crestlands|Mary Addams Bayne How Abraham and Sarah contrived to hold fast so many thousand servants against their wills, we are left quite in the dark. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus|American Anti-Slavery Society In this way I contrived to come within twenty feet without alarming him. Golden Days for Boys and Girls|Various The barge in which Agrippina was thus invited to embark, was the treacherous trap that Anicetus had contrived for her destruction.
British Dictionary definitions for contrived
adjectiveobviously planned, artificial, or lacking in spontaneity; forced; unnatural Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to contrivedphony, false, forced, affected, elaborate, strained, overdone, labored, fake, manipulated, artificial, unnatural, recherché, unspontaneous |