Both Uses of
contrived
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Her dinners, of a very modest quality, were so well cooked and so well served, and so neat in their contrivances, half English and half French, that nothing could be better.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- She might think it was contrived, in case of the worse, to convey to him the means of anticipating the sentence.†
Chpt 3.9
Definition:
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(contrived) unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)