contrived
adjective
obviously planned or forced; artificial; strained.
contrivedly
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a word derived from
contrived.
Example Sentences
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Outwardly, the circumstances of her early life seem almost contrivedly good: both her parents were schoolteachers in Birmingham, Ala., where she went through the tenth grade as a straight A student.
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