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contrived
adjective
(con-trived)
artificially formal
Synonyms:
artificial
,
hokey
,
stilted
,
Examples:
Contrived coyness.
contrived
adjective
(con-trived)
showing effects of planning or manipulation
Examples:
A novel with a contrived ending.
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contrived
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stilted
,
unnatural
,
artificial
,
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,
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,
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,
drawn
,
manufactured
,
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,
fired
,
human-made
,
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,
overacted
,
overdetermined
,
scripted
,
concocted
,
sentimentalized
,
daft
,
belabored
,
discomfiting
,
disinteresting
,
exaggerated
,
seeming
,
dunderheaded
,
misconceived
,
attitudinizing
,
confected
,
overblown
,
pettifogging
,
interweaved
,
rehearsed
,
orchestrated
,
cavilling
,
aggrandise
,
elide
,
rote
,
hyperbolized
,
obfuscates
,
mythologise
,
farfetched
,
deluded
,
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,
moralizing
,
dissimulate
,
footling
,
situations
,
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,
nature
,
example
,
plot
,
settings
,
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,
scarcity
,
story
,
environment
,
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,
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,
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,
items
,
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,
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,
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,
plots
,
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,
circumstances
,
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,
reality
,
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,
experiments
,
smile
,
look
,
air
,
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,
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,
scene
,
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,
atmosphere
,
tasks
,
fashion
,
consensus
,
corridors
,
sale
,
images
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
ambiguity
,
simplicity
,
conversation
,
excuse
,
dialogue
,
scenario
,
charges
,
scenes
,
affair
,
contexts
,
contrived
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