Contrived

Word CONTRIVED
Character 9
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /kənˈtɹaɪvd/

Definitions and meanings of "Contrived"

What do we mean by contrived?

Obviously planned or calculated; not spontaneous or natural; labored. adjective

Simple past tense and past participle of contrive. verb

Unnatural, forced adjective

Showing effects of planning or manipulation adjective

Artificially formal adjective

To invent by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise

To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.

To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.

To spend (time, or a period).

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The word "contrived" in example sentences

ANDERSON: Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright both have written letters to Robert Iger, the head of Disney, ABC's parent company, to complain about what they call contrived scenes which bear no relationship to actual events, and scenes that are false and defamatory. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The US government is to stop using the term "illegal enemy combatants," a label contrived by the Bush administration to justify detaining people indefinitely without ever bringing them before a court or even granting them prisoner-of-war status. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The U.S. government is to stop using the term "illegal enemy combatants," a label contrived by the Bush administration to justify detaining people indefinitely without ever bringing them before a court or even granting them prisoner-of-war status. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Everything Adam said about BSII being self-satisfied and contrived is correct. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The "value" of 1p to 6p is a fiction contrived from the price of actual paid tickets. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They had to rely on descriptions and their imagination and, as was the fashion of the time, the animals were placed in contrived settings and often given human facial qualities, which only serves to heighten the sense of bizarre. ❋ Unknown (2006)

An actress who's barely believable as a high school graduate, with a name contrived merely for that one incredibly lame line. ❋ David Campbell (2006)

Courcelles succeeded in robbing the prisoners who were in his charge in a more cautious manner than his predecessor; he, in short, contrived to subtract something for himself from any remittances which reached them, and paid them francs for livres. ❋ A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling (N/A)

How Mrs. Minchin contrived to keep her own feet and to nurse the poor boy as she did was a marvel. ❋ Unknown (1872)

The notable Mrs. Mittin contrived soon to so usefully ingratiate herself in the favour of Mr. Dennel, that, in the full persuasion she would save him half his annual expences, he married her: but her friend, Mr. Clykes, was robbed in his journey home of the cash which he had so dishonourably gained. ❋ Unknown (1796)

That he was plotted against and his ruin contrived; he was not only ridiculed as a weak man, but reproached and misrepresented as a bad man and dangerous to the government. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The case proposed to him by the scribes and Pharisees, who herein contrived to pick a quarrel with him, and bring him into a snare, v. (1.) ❋ Unknown (1721)

She had stuck up orders about dancing, as you see in public bowling-greens; turned half the company out at twelve; kept those she liked to supper; and, in short, contrived to do an agreeable thing in the rudest manner imaginable; besides having dressed her husband in a Scotch plaid, which just now is One of the things in the world that is reckoned most offensive; but you know we are all mad, so good night! ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)

(The exception that proves the rule: “Ocean’s Eleven,” which reveled in just how contrived is the Eleven’s diversity. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The constant trouble into which the narrator gets himself seems contrived, which isn't helped by the fact that the setting, against which this action ought to be heightened, is depicted cursorily at best. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet some aspects of the production feel contrived, which is even more damaging to the movie than its lack of narrative drive. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Metalogicon and Policraticus, titles contrived by John in the belief that a Greek-sounding name would provide an air of learned authority to his work, he left many other writings, including two poems, the Entheticus Major and Entheticus Minor, addressing various themes in philosophy. ❋ Guilfoy, Kevin (2005)

It was an expression contrived by God's providence to comfort; to overcome all the dark auguries that the physical ugliness of death inevitably creates, and to prove, by the divine glory on the face, that the ugliness is a delusion. ❋ Unknown (1872)

It was an expression contrived by God's providence to comfort; to overcome all the dark auguries that the physical ugliness of death inevitably creates, and to prove by the divine glory on the face, that the ugliness is a delusion. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

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