contrived 的定义
- obviously planned or forced; artificial; strained: a contrived story.
contrived 近义词
overly planned
更多contrived例句
- The plots are even more contrived than what you’d find in the average family sitcom, past or present.
- Bone was a highly competent managing editor, and contrived somehow to squeeze us into the tumultuous Post office.
- Agents contrived for one paid federal informant and then another to introduce themselves into his life.
- Or, worse, they are contrived to sound tired, perhaps in an attempt to come off as world-weary.
- The story is schematic and contrived rather than palpable and lived.
- Granted, there was something fundamentally contrived about the experience—and not only because I was in Chicago instead of Spain.
- Scientists tell us that from the point of view of optics the human eye is a clumsy instrument poorly contrived for its work.
- Anyway there was a lot of embroidery on it, full of little holes, which somehow contrived to be extraordinarily fetching.
- Her clothes were good and new, but some desolate dressmaker had contrived to invest them with an air of hopeless dowdiness.
- It was not purposely contrived, it was in automatic obedience to deeper impulses than she knew.
- As a consequence several varieties of curtains, all involving the use of asbestos, have been contrived.