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The plots are even more contrived than what you’d find in the average family sitcom, past or present.
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Scientists tell us that from the point of view of optics the human eye is a clumsy instrument poorly contrived for its work.
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Anyway there was a lot of embroidery on it, full of little holes, which somehow contrived to be extraordinarily fetching.
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Her clothes were good and new, but some desolate dressmaker had contrived to invest them with an air of hopeless dowdiness.
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It was not purposely contrived, it was in automatic obedience to deeper impulses than she knew.
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As a consequence several varieties of curtains, all involving the use of asbestos, have been contrived.
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The "effects" were astonishingly well contrived by both author and producer (Mr. Holman Clark).
There were great exclamations of satisfaction, and gratitude; "it was the very thing wanted, only how could he have contrived it?"
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Science began with astronomy, and the first instruments which men contrived for the purpose of investigation were astronomical.
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These instruments were of a simple nature, for the magnifying glass was not yet contrived, and so the telescope was impossible.
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WORDS RELATED TO CONTRIVED
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put-on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
- adulterated
- alloyed
- artificial
- assumed
- bent
- bogus
- brummagem
- bum
- colored
- contrived
- copied
- crock
- deceptive
- disguised
- ersatz
- fabricated
- factitious
- feigned
- fishy
- forged
- framed
- hollow
- imitation
- made-up
- make-believe
- manufactured
- meretricious
- mock
- ostensible
- phony
- pretended
- pseudo
- seeming
- shady
- sham
- simulated
- snide
- so-called
- spurious
- substitute
- synthetic
- unreal
- wrong
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- mannered
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put-on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
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