Both Uses of
contrived
in
The Age of Innocence
- "What we've all contrived to make it," he felt like answering.†
Chpt 16 *
- He was even ashamed of the ease with which the whole thing had been done: it reminded him, for an uncomfortable moment, of Lawrence Lefferts's masterly contrivances for securing his freedom.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
-
(contrived) unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)