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How to pronounce “contrived”
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Everything's contrived.
- Definition summary
- simple past and past participle of contrive
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How to pronounce contrived
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Everything's contrived.
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A Deep Dive Into “contrived”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- simple past and past participle of contrive
- [Adjective]
- Created in a deliberate, rather than natural or spontaneous, way.
- Unnatural, forced; artificial, or unrealistic.
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