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
More low-keyed and taciturn, Bunker was an inspired contriver of compromises.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
George Gershwin is rapidly overtaking even the tireless Irving Berlin as a contriver of jazz melodies.
From Time Magazine Archive
These are the wretched forgeries of that unworthy man who has won your confidence—a man who is no less an enemy to your happiness than he is a selfish contriver against mine.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
