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contrivingverbpresent participle of contrive to create or think of by clever use of the imaginationcontrived abstract metal sculptures using old household utensils concocting, constructing, cooking (up), devising, drumming up, excogitating, fabricating, inventing, making up, manufacturing, thinking (up), trumping up, vamping (up) coining, designing, hatching, producingdaydreaming, dreaming, fantasizingconceiving, envisaging, envisioning, imagining, picturing, visioning, visualizingad-libbing, extemporizing, improvising coming up with cloning, copycatting, copying, duplicating, imitating, mimicking, reduplicating, replicating, reproducing 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 colluding, compassing, conniving, conspiring, intriguing, machinating, plotting, putting up, scheming counterplottingbrewing, concocting, cooking (up), devising, hatchingengineering, jockeying, maneuvering, manipulatingdesigning, framing, laying out, mapping, planning, shaping to plan out usually with subtle skill or carecontrived a way of planning the surprise party without their catching on to it engineering, finagling, finessing, framing, machinating, maneuvering, manipulating, masterminding, negotiating, wangling arranging, concerting, concluding, hammering out, working outangling (for), compassing, intriguing, plotting, schemingconnivingbrewing, concocting, cooking (up), hatchingcaptaining, commanding, conducting, directing, handling, managing, quarterbacking, runninggerrymandering blowing, bobbling, botching, bungling, butchering, flubbing, fumbling, gumming (up), lousing up, mangling, messing (up), mishandling, muffing |