Definition of Contrived

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Definition of Contrived
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Contrived Quotations

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
Freddie Mercury

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Samuel Johnson

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Samuel Johnson

But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older.
Jennifer Lopez

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
Wilhelm Reich

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
Elizabeth Bishop

Contrived Translations

contrived in Dutch is slinks, bedrieglijk
contrived in German is erfand

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