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The novel has a contrived ending.contrived = unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)
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Shelters could be contrived for few (the Master had one) and there was little food (even the Master went short). (source)contrived = arranged
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Why, I spotted you for a boy when you was threading the needle; and I contrived the other things just to make certain. (source)contrived = made up (arranged)
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Nor would any of the Achaean women have bewailed him; so dread was the deed he contrived. (source)contrived = arranged
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By comparison, the chariot costume seems garish, the interview dress too contrived.† (source)contrived = unnatural or arranged
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McCandless's contrived asceticism and a pseudoliterary stance compound rather than reduce the fault.† (source)
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"So you contrived a trick," I said.† (source)contrived = unnatural or arranged
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The following day, Saturday, my mother and I would contrive to be out of the apartment before he woke from his sweaty, tangled sleep on the sofa.† (source)contrive = arrangestandard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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He is average-sized and prematurely gray, but by some contrivance of carriage and posture, he makes the men who stand before him feel smaller.† (source)contrivance = a device created for a purpose OR something arranged (often seeming artificial)
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I counted to one hundred as I rocked, contriving the patience to get one down in order to take up another.† (source)contriving = arranging -- especially in an unnatural way
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They caused it to be as a craved treasure of mythology, hung amid tasks and contrivances of danger.† (source)
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'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contrives.'† (source)contrives = arranges -- especially in an unnatural way
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"Kahgahgee, my raven!" said he, "You the leader of the robbers, You the plotter of this mischief, The contriver of this outrage, I will keep you, I will hold you, As a hostage for your people, As a pledge of good behavior!"† (source)
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Two of a kind, we are, contrivers, both.† (source)
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In her absence, and in the absence of anyone like her, he was drawn to many things that, in being beautiful, were her allies— the blue of the stage-set in the floodlights, the grace of a cat as it turned its small lion-like face to question a human movement, a fire that blazed from within the dark of a blacksmith's shop or a baker's and caught his eye as he passed, a single tone arising from a cathedral choir to shock a jaded congregation with its unworldly beauty, the mountaintops as snow was lashed from them by blue winds, the perfect and uncontrived smile of a child.† (source)uncontrived = natural or not arrangedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncontrived means not and reverses the meaning of contrived. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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"The scene," he said, "appears contrived."† (source)contrived = unnatural or arranged
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