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hoaky
flattery
hokey
agonistical
confection
contrive
artificial
natural
stilted
schmancy
overprecious
fictitious
forced
dog and pony show
spontaneous
cute
opposite day
cheesy
ingenious
deliberate
high sounding
unrealistic
contrivedly
subtle
deus ex machina
prepense
piss elegant
unnatural
pretext
bethought
gussie up
ass pull
uncontrived
Definitions:
Verb
Definition: simple past tense and past participle of contrive
Adjective
contrived
Definition: showing effects of planning or manipulation; "a novel with a contrived ending"
artificial
contrived
hokey
stilted
Definition: artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
Definition: Created in a deliberate, rather than natural or spontaneous, way.