Synonyms for contriving:
adj. scheming to manipulate
adj. scheming, devious
adj. politic, tactful
adj. scheming
adj. causing to function
adj. deceitful, untrustworthy
noun imagination
Examples of uses:
I'd say that you've been contriving this face to face even before me, because the only thing you're missing is heft.
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By contriving to get me out of there and sent home?
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He, being remiss, most generous, and free from all contriving will not peruse the foils.
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She only married me to get there, contriving her place at risk of harming me:
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How can we do that when your science and inventions are perpetually changing life for us - when you're everlastingly contriving strange things?
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You ought to be obliged to your Aunt Bertram and myself for contriving to let you go. A pretty good day's amusement you have had.
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He is contriving something bigger, something huge.
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If any of her work were turned into a screenplay, there would be no need to contrive sets or costumes.
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Title: World class: Remembering legendary travel writer Jan Morris, author: Liza Weisstuch, url: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/jan-morris-travel-writer-appreciation/2020/12/10/45926ca6-3647-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html
Wonderful ingenuity has been shown in contriving a means to enable people to ascend the Wetterhorn Mountain in Switzerland.
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Title: The Wonder Book of Knowledge, author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41111/41111-h/41111-h.htm
Before church time walking with my father in the garden contriving.
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Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete, author: Samuel Pepys, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4200/4200-h/4200-h.htm
