contriver
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
The celebrated Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is yawned offstage as Osberg, a contriver of "mystico-allegoric anecdotes."
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Requa is a good negotiator, an able "contriver" who will pull, if anybody can, the Colorado Springs conference through to success for his great & good friend in the White House.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then the Lord’s servant The mighty hand-maiden, was mindful in all things 75 How she most easily from the evil contriver His life might snatch ere the lecherous deceiver, The creature crime-laden awoke.
From Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose by Various
