Sample Sentences forcontrived (editor-reviewed)
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The novel has a contrived ending.contrived = unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)
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Shelters could be contrived for few (the Master had one) and there was little food (even the Master went short). (source)contrived = arranged
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Why, I spotted you for a boy when you was threading the needle; and I contrived the other things just to make certain. (source)contrived = made up (arranged)
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McCandless's contrived asceticism and a pseudoliterary stance compound rather than reduce the fault.† (source)
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By comparison, the chariot costume seems garish, the interview dress too contrived.† (source)
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Nothing has been contrived, dramatized, or fabricated.† (source)
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"The scene," he said, "appears contrived."† (source)
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I must contrive it that Paul learns the truth about her before I slay her.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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He is average-sized and prematurely gray, but by some contrivance of carriage and posture, he makes the men who stand before him feel smaller.† (source)
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I counted to one hundred as I rocked, contriving the patience to get one down in order to take up another.† (source)
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They caused it to be as a craved treasure of mythology, hung amid tasks and contrivances of danger.† (source)
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'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contrives.'† (source)
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She may do it by blandishment, like Rosalind, or by stratagem, like Mariana; but in every case the relation between the woman and the man is the same: she is the pursuer and contriver, he the pursued and disposed of.† (source)
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Such was the din of the bells and the squalling of the cats, that though the duke and duchess were the contrivers of the joke they were startled by it, while Don Quixote stood paralysed with fear; and as luck would have it, two or three of the cats made their way in through the grating of his chamber, and flying from one side to the other, made it seem as if there was a legion of devils at large in it.† (source)
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In her absence, and in the absence of anyone like her, he was drawn to many things that, in being beautiful, were her allies— the blue of the stage-set in the floodlights, the grace of a cat as it turned its small lion-like face to question a human movement, a fire that blazed from within the dark of a blacksmith's shop or a baker's and caught his eye as he passed, a single tone arising from a cathedral choir to shock a jaded congregation with its unworldly beauty, the mountaintops as snow was lashed from them by blue winds, the perfect and uncontrived smile of a child.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncontrived means not and reverses the meaning of contrived. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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It wasn't so much what he said, the blatant lies, the contrived empathy, or even the fact that he had not raised a hand to her, Mariam, since he had dug the girl out from under those bricks.† (source)
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