contriver
- 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
He is, in the language of book reviewers, a "slick man," a contriver of "adroit hokum," which is hopelessly "fast-moving" and unreclaimably "superficial."
From Time Magazine Archive
More low-keyed and taciturn, Bunker was an inspired contriver of compromises.
From Time Magazine Archive
A contriver of masks for the Court, Inigo Jones, was in this way tempted to build palaces, if one may say so, in mask-style.
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.
