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1 [incident, meeting] manigancé ;2 ( forced) [plot, ending] tiré par les cheveux ;3 ( artificial) [style, effect, behaviour] étudié. -
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1) (to manage (to do something): He contrived to remove the money from her bag.) trouver moyen de2) (to make in a clever way: He contrived a tent from an old sack.) trouver moyen de faire• -
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contrive [kənˈtraɪv]a. ( = invent) inventerb. ( = manage) to contrive to do sth s'arranger pour faire qch* * *[kən'traɪv]transitive verb1) ( arrange) organiserto contrive to do — parvenir à faire, trouver moyen de faire
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1) (the act of contriving.) invention2) (something contrived (especially something mechanical): a contrivance for making the door open automatically.) dispositif -
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contrive [kən'traɪv](a) (engineer → meeting) combiner(b) (invent → device, machine) inventer, imaginer∎ to contrive to do sth trouver le moyen de faire qch;∎ she contrived to confuse matters still further elle a réussi à embrouiller encore plus les choses
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Contrived — Origin Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Genres Rock, alternative Years active 2000–present Labels Dependent Hand Drawn Dracula … Wikipedia
contrived — index aforethought, assumed (feigned), controlled (automatic), strategic, tactical Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William … Law dictionary
contrived — [adj] overly planned affected, artificial, elaborate, fake, false, forced, labored, manipulated, overdone, phony, recherché, strained, unnatural, unspontaneous; concepts 564,582 … New thesaurus
contrived — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ deliberately created rather than arising spontaneously … English terms dictionary
contrived — [kəntrīvd′] adj. too obviously the result of forethought and planning; not spontaneous or natural … English World dictionary
contrived — [[t]kəntra͟ɪvd[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you say that something someone says or does is contrived, you think it is false and deliberate, rather than natural and not planned. There was nothing contrived or calculated about what he said … English dictionary
contrived — adj. VERBS ▪ be, seem, sound ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc. ▪ highly … Collocations dictionary
contrived — adjective a story, situation etc that is contrived has been written or arranged in a way that seems false and not natural: The film had a ridiculously contrived story line … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Contrived — Contrive Con*trive (k[o^]n*tr[imac]v ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Contrived}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Contriving}.] [OE. contriven, contreven, controven, to invent, OF. controver, contruver; con + trouver to find. See {Troubadour}, {trover}.] To form by an… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
contrived — adjective Date: 15th century artificial, labored < a contrived plot > … New Collegiate Dictionary
contrived — contrivedly /keuhn truy vid lee/, adv. /keuhn truyvd /, adj. obviously planned or forced; artificial; strained: a contrived story. [1505 15; CONTRIVE + ED2] * * * … Universalium