Synonym: artificial, hokey, stilted. Similar words: contrive, contrite, contribute, contributor, contributing, contribution, contribute to, on the contrary. Meaning: [kən'traɪv] adj. 1. showing effects of planning or manipulation 2. artificially formal.
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91) Mr. Knoll uses several products to create an everyday style that looks well - groomed but not contrived.
92) A rumour went round that Snowball had after all contrived to introduce poison into Napoleon's food. At eleven o'clock Squealer came out to make another announcement.
93) What if we need to use a variable that is defined outside a nested function. Consider this contrived example.
94) Every question was a trap , a contrived progression towards a preconceived conclusion.
95) This will help you avoid falling into the trap of contrived language that turns off the readers - sometimes to the point where they shred your MRD and feed the shreds through the shredder again!
96) He contrived keep up appearances to a certain extent before Rushton.
97) He contrived to keep up appearances to a certain extent before Rushton.
98) In the nomad state, some have an abundance of cattle, sufficient for the food of a multitude, while others have not contrived to appropriate and retain any superfluity, or perhaps any cattle at all.
99) Mrs. Norris contrived to remove one article from his sight that might have distressed him.
100) Bennet, through the assistance of servants, contrived to have the earliest tidings of it, that the period of anxiety and fretfulness on her side might be as long as it could.
100) Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
101) The cause they contrived so painstakingly also ended in failure.
102) She contrived to slip away unobserved in the dusk of the afternoon.
103) He rejects inductive reasoning, arguing that the results of contrived experiments carried out by a few scientists can never be universally demonstrable outside of the laboratory.
104) On the basis of it, a few advanced intellectuals contrived some elementary electoral system of China.
105) Exerting my utmost strength, I contrived to draw off the cover.
106) It was Kingu who contrived the uprising, And made Tiamat rebel, and joined battle.
107) The tints in the sky was wonderful, every conceivable shade of blue-grey, which contrived to modulate into the golden brilliance in which the sun was veiled.
108) But will all this bonhomie—both contrived and genuine—really change anything?
109) An ignition stability index for pulverized coal(CI) has been contrived with IG-DTG analysis data. It comprehensively reflects the pulverized coal's ignition temperature and its combustion intensity.
110) Its so contrived it feels like an in-joke for cover-based shooter players.
111) This contrived photo was conceived and created to demonstrate Newton's first law of motion.
112) He contrived to make a mess of the whole thing.
113) The couple contrived to bring up their children on a small income.
114) Cruise directors keep passengers busy with contrived activities and poolside games.
115) At Gordium in the kingdom of Phrygia an ox cart was tied up with a knot so cunningly contrived that no ends were visible.
116) Rather than comb through already ported code for examples of "unportable" code that needs to be ported to Power Architecture, I'm going to give a few obviously contrived examples.
117) Tom contrived to scarify the cupboard with it, and was arranging to begin on the bureau, when he was called off to dress for Sunday-school.
118) According to the trait of JOY sprag ram in structure and overhaul experiences, we have contrived a testing rig for JOY sprag ram P. O. C. lock to guarantee the overhaul quality of the hy...
119) Steven Gerrard and Joe Cole contrived to miss a gilt-edged chance late on and Cole then fired wide with the outside of his foot from close range as England finished strongly.
120) After the taping became known, I understood various things in retrospect, both innocent and contrived.
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