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contrive::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
| Type of | create mentally, create by mental act |
| Derivation | contrivance |
contrive::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | design, plan, project |
| Type of | create by mental act, create mentally |
| Has types | map out, concert, map, plot |
| Derivation | contriver |
They contrived to murder their boss.
Examples of contrive
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Why can they not contrive to send bills and red reminders to the same address?
From the newscientist.com
There's an emotional quality to their music that isn't something you can contrive.
From the entertainment.time.com
Denial is where we hide, and others must help us contrive and maintain that denial.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who contrive mischief by statute?
From the scienceblogs.com
How, in other words, do you contrive a Gothic literature with neither guilt nor God?
From the latimes.com
Red Sox management says it doesn't contrive sellouts as a marketing tactic.
From the businessweek.com
Silicon Valley will contrive some new revolution that seizes the national imagination.
From the economist.com
They are not a uniform nation of bigoted clones as some Europeans contrive to believe.
From the guardian.co.uk
To draw something startling, then contrive a use for it, is a recipe for a white elephant.
From the nzherald.co.nz
- Plan: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"
- Invent: come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
- Project: put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"
- (contrived) showing effects of planning or manipulation; "a novel with a contrived ending"
- (contrived) artificial: artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
- Contrive are a heavy metal band from Melbourne, Australia formed in 1999. Their musical style has been compared to that of Sepultura.
- Contrived is a Canadian indie rock band based in Halifax and Montreal that formed in June 2000. The band consists of Mike Bigelow, Loel Campbell, Mike MacNeill, Tim D'Eon and Jon Samuel. They are signed to Hand Drawn Dracula. ...
- To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to plan; to scheme; to plot; To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation; To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light
- (contrived) unnatural, forced
