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
George Gershwin is rapidly overtaking even the tireless Irving Berlin as a contriver of jazz melodies.
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
For after-revenges, feare them not; for your own father that was estemed to be the contriver of Norfolk's ruin, yet his son followeth your father's son and loveth him.
From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt
