All 3 Uses of
contrived
in
Anna Karenina
- But why she had spoken of old Madame Vrede, whom she had to go and see, as she had to see many other people, she could not have explained; and yet, as it afterwards turned out, had she contrived the most cunning devices to meet Vronsky, she could have thought of nothing better.†
Part 3
- And it was not the necessity of concealment, not the aim with which the concealment was contrived, but the process of concealment itself which attracted her.†
Part 3 *
- Now, on the contrary, she was perforce decked out in a way so inconsistent with her age and her figure, that her one anxiety was to contrive that the contrast between these adornments and her own exterior should not be too appalling.†
Part 5
Definition:
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(contrived) unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)