• Synonyms: contrived
  Meaning: showing effects of planning or manipulation; "a novel with a contrived ending"

• Who contrived this window, which was not there at first?
• They have even contrived to carry canals to the top of a mountain.
• It always beat me how they contrived to defend so many points at once.
• Eric crowned himself with bloodroot and contrived grass sandals for his feet.
• He contrived so many little tools to cheapen the work that he made lots of money.
• He was holding it inside his coat, and it contrived to wiggle partly down the sleeve.
• Here also we made some acquaintances, who almost contrived to cheat me into happiness.
• Nevertheless, the widow had contrived to reconcile the two men before she reached the Hall.
• He contrived to bring him to his window, and a moment after, the door was cautiously opened.
• However, Josephus contrived another stratagem besides the foregoing, to get plenty of what they wanted.

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