uncontrived
Example Sentences
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Stevie’s small shop has a carefully designed yet fun and somehow uncontrived neo-1980s feel — Ms. Pac-Man, plastic booths, very cool stools, a pop-and-punk-culture collage wall.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2022
Like an Instagram peacock affecting an uncontrived display of threads, Cohen needed something to do with his hands, and he completed the look with a wise guy’s self-satisfied cigar.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2018
However, the judge allowed the girl’s “clear, voluntary, uncontrived and spontaneous” utterances into the trial.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2017
We want them to feel inventive but uncontrived, lifelike but extraordinary, surprising but inevitable, illuminating but mysterious, resolved but open-ended.
From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2014
Her look, she said, tends to mirror the runways in that it is unpredictable and seemingly uncontrived.
From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2014
