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Sentence count:120+5Posted:2016-12-20Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: artificialhokeystiltedSimilar words: contrivecontritecontributecontributorcontributingcontributioncontribute toon the contraryMeaning: [kən'traɪv]  adj. 1. showing effects of planning or manipulation 2. artificially formal. 
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31) If the new telecommunications age brings unmediated democracy, what will happen to our carefully contrived constitutional system of checks and balances?
32) He contrived a meeting between his mother and her ex- husband.
33) Or has he contrived to bring you out - given you an in-tray and an out?
34) It also had a balancing mechanism contrived from two arching tubes at right angles to one another in a vertical plane.
35) They drew back from the horrible banquet and they turned upon the criminal who had contrived it.
36) Telly snobs will, of course, dismiss the show as lightweight, contrived pap.
37) She contrived a look of bewilderment, bordering on wounded pride.
38) Nor should we even entertain a strategy so tortuously contrived and, in our situation, so unnatural.
39) These are far less formal, contrived changes than those in the documentary novels.
40) Gardens contrived to divert the power of botanical growth into the tame artifacts of domesticated crops.
40) Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
41) Way too contrived and gooey for most grown-ups, it might well delight youngsters, especially its dramatic underwater sequences.
42) My films never pretend to be anything but artefacts - they're unnatural, contrived, fashioned, unrealistic, on purpose.
43) But Ember contrived to nudge her reassuringly and a gravity-shift bounced her high and maybe it was all possible after all.
44) Notice that the principle of contextual plausibility allows legitimacy to expressions which arise in the contrived contexts of the classroom.
45) Contrived plotting, such as marriages of convenience, trite misunderstandings and mistaken identities, should be avoided.
46) The plot seems contrived.
47) The program it had contrived, however, was now subtly different.
48) The contrived anti-nature stance of the Aesthetes is, perhaps surprisingly, often echoed by modernist sophisticates.
49) One critic described the movie as "a stale and hopelessly contrived comedy".
50) When living in his Stirling flat he contrived to flood the downstairs neighbours - three times!
51) No shot surpassed Hollioake's square-leg six off Harvey, which he contrived to play outside leg stump.
52) Instances are quoted of highly contrived antithesis, of mixed metaphor and elaborate circumlocution.
53) Fortunately this morning Rose had contrived to rid himself of Naseby's services.
54) I could tell her how carefully I have contrived to avoid difficulties and evade irksome responsibilities.
55) Both the personality and the work remain famously obscure in a way which seems almost contrived.
56) I by contrast contrived to leave my grammar school in the Midlands without A levels.
57) There followed an alarming period in which the carefully contrived economic recovery and social peace created under the Callaghan government disintegrated.
58) Visiting Buffalo, he contrived to see her but again did not express his feelings for her.
59) I had always enjoyed being in situations where I was free of the shackles of contrived good looks.
60) He is less practiced in the art of contrived humility than was Nixon.
More similar words: contrivecontritecontributecontributorcontributingcontributioncontribute toon the contrarycontrolcontrarycontractcontrastcontrast tocontradictcontractorby contrastcontroversytake controlcontretempsout of controlcontrol groupunder controlto the contrarycontradictioncontroversialbeyond controlcontradictorysocial contractdivedlive down
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