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contrivedadjective lacking in natural or spontaneous qualitythe contrived applause of a TV studio audience that has been told when to clap affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forced, mechanical, mock, phony(also phoney), plastic, pretended, pseudo, put-on, sham, simulated, spurious, strained, unnatural automatic, canned, concocted, fabricated, hokey, labored, manufactured, pat, unauthentic, unreal, unrealisticdouble-dealing, empty, facile, hollow, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, two-faced, unctuousexaggerated, histrionic, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, theatrical(also theatric)cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simperingconventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, woodenartful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied artless, genuine, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, uncontrived, unfeigned, unforced authentic, bona fide, real, realistic, right, truehonest, ingenuous, sincere, unpretendingeasy, effortless, smoothextemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, unconscious, unprompted, unrehearsed, unstudied to create or think of by clever use of the imaginationcontrived abstract metal sculptures using old household utensils concocted, constructed, cooked (up), devised, drummed up, excogitated, fabricated, invented, made up, manufactured, thought (up), trumped up, vamped (up) coined, designed, hatched, produceddaydreamed, dreamed(or dreamt), fantasizedconceived, envisaged, envisioned, imagined, pictured, visioned, visualizedad-libbed, extemporized, improvised came up with cloned, copied, copycatted, duplicated, imitated, mimicked, reduplicated, replicated, reproduced to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful endsthe mischievous boys were always contriving and trying to pull the prank that would be the talk of the school colluded, compassed, connived, conspired, intrigued, machinated, plotted, put up, schemed counterplottedbrewed, concocted, cooked (up), devised, hatchedengineered, jockeyed, maneuvered, manipulateddesigned, framed, laid out, mapped, planned, shaped to plan out usually with subtle skill or carecontrived a way of planning the surprise party without their catching on to it engineered, finagled, finessed, framed, machinated, maneuvered, manipulated, masterminded, negotiated, wangled arranged, concerted, concluded, hammered out, worked outangled (for), compassed, intrigued, plotted, schemedconnivedbrewed, concocted, cooked (up), hatchedcaptained, commanded, conducted, directed, handled, managed, quarterbacked, ran(also chiefly dialectal run)gerrymandered blew, bobbled, botched, bungled, butchered, flubbed, fumbled, gummed (up), loused up, mangled, messed (up), mishandled, muffed in the 15th century |