Contrived has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
Adjective
Verb
1
simple past tense and past participle of contrive
Adjective
1
showing effects of planning or manipulation
"a novel with a contrived ending"
2
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"
3
Created in a deliberate, rather than natural or spontaneous, way.
Example Sentences
"a novel with a contrived ending"
adjective
"that artificial humility that her husband hated"
adjective
"contrived coyness"
adjective
"a stilted letter of acknowledgment"
adjective
"when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
adjective
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