contrived
IPA: kʌntrˈaɪvd
adjective
- Created in a deliberate, rather than natural or spontaneous, way.
- Unnatural, forced; artificial, or unrealistic.
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Examples of "contrived" in Sentences
- The former endings sound contrived.
- They contrived to finish the project.
- The terrorist threat sounds contrived.
- The people contrived to save the property.
- The whole thing is contrived and contradictory.
- Everything Adam said about BSII being self-satisfied and contrived is correct.
- The "value" of 1p to 6p is a fiction contrived from the price of actual paid tickets.
- How Mrs. Minchin contrived to keep her own feet and to nurse the poor boy as she did was a marvel.
- An actress who's barely believable as a high school graduate, with a name contrived merely for that one incredibly lame line.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.