contrive
verb (used with object)
to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent.
contriver
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a word derived from
contrive.
Example Sentences
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Yet it is still hard for the reader to get truly inside the mind of this complex Kennedy, somehow both a “Machiavellian contriver and man of conscience”.
From Economist ● Jul. 7, 2016
A slight love story binds the unrelated incidents together and Mr. Oppenheim proves as ingenious a contriver of puzzles as ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
The celebrated Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is yawned offstage as Osberg, a contriver of "mystico-allegoric anecdotes."
From Time Magazine Archive
More low-keyed and taciturn, Bunker was an inspired contriver of compromises.
From Time Magazine Archive
He regarded him as the sole author and contriver of the Cato Street plot.
From The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick by Charles Bradlaugh
