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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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In spite of the cameras, producers, and managers, the setting doesn’t feel particularly contrived.
WHY WE LOVE ‘HIKING WITH RAPPERS’AWISEOCTOBER 28, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINECreating fake sound for drivers who are used to hearing something when they step on the “gas” sounds contrived, because it is.
THE NEW ELECTRIC BMW I4 IS A NIMBLE DRIVING MACHINE—WITH A CINEMATIC SOUNDTRACKDAN CARNEYOCTOBER 15, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEThe plots are even more contrived than what you’d find in the average family sitcom, past or present.
PUNKY BREWSTER IS JUST THE LATEST PROOF THAT TODAY'S KIDS DESERVE BETTER THAN ‘80S AND ‘90S REBOOTSJUDY BERMANFEBRUARY 24, 2021TIMEScientists tell us that from the point of view of optics the human eye is a clumsy instrument poorly contrived for its work.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKAnyway there was a lot of embroidery on it, full of little holes, which somehow contrived to be extraordinarily fetching.
ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHERC. N. WILLIAMSONHer clothes were good and new, but some desolate dressmaker had contrived to invest them with an air of hopeless dowdiness.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKEIt was not purposely contrived, it was in automatic obedience to deeper impulses than she knew.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODAs a consequence several varieties of curtains, all involving the use of asbestos, have been contrived.
ASBESTOSROBERT H. JONESThe "effects" were astonishingly well contrived by both author and producer (Mr. Holman Clark).
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 158, APRIL 28, 1920VARIOUSThere were great exclamations of satisfaction, and gratitude; "it was the very thing wanted, only how could he have contrived it?"
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGEWORDS RELATED TO CONTRIVED
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- gone Hollywood
- hammy
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- la-di-da
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- playacting
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- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
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- highfalutin
- hollow
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- insincere
- mannered
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.