contrived
adjective
obviously planned or forced; artificial; strained.
well-contrived
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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
After working his way up the river, Captain Talbot came in sight of the enemy posted in two forts, mounting about twelve guns, and protected by a strong and well-contrived boom.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
They are so many well-contrived foils, to give greater brilliancy to the diamonds of a comfortable cot, and the entire consciousness of being no longer exposed to an untimely summons on deck.
From The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper
It was a clever, well-contrived scheme, but he will have to work hard to keep those guns, Gil.
From Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East by William Heysham Overend
Captain Macarthur had built a strong and well-contrived blockhouse, of the excellent kind of wood, a species of teak, before alluded to.
