well-contrived
- a word derived from contrived.
Example Sentences
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Even where the product was not readily identifiable, salesmen were hard at work as dramatic show after dramatic show peddled the quintessential goodness of man in one well-contrived happy ending after another.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then something happened which would never happen in a well-contrived Oppenheim novel�the Nazis swarmed into northern France.
From Time Magazine Archive
"O what a soft, easy, and wholesome pillow is ignorance and incuriosity whereon to compose a well-contrived head!"
From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord
“This extremely readable and well-contrived novel should secure for its authoress a recognised position amongst the pleasantest of our writers of light fiction.”
From Psyche by Couperus, Louis
The remainder of the scheme was copious and well-contrived.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-10-06 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
