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    Contrived phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'contrived'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of contrived: /koʊntrɪvɛd/
    • Modern IPA representation of contrived: /cɒntrɪvɛd/

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    List of meaning for contrived

    unnatural or fabricated

    contrived(adj)

    showing effects of planning or manipulation

    "a novel with a contrived ending"

    artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted(adj)

    artificially formal

    "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

    lacking in natural or spontaneous quality

    the contrived applause of a TV studio audience that has been told when to clap

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    contrived in sentence

    1. If you look at the picture of the dog and cat dancing, you can easily tell a Photoshop user created the contrived image.

    2. Since you put a great deal of time into planning your contrived crime, you should not expect a lenient prison sentence.

    3. The people on the reality show speak their lines in such a contrived manner that it sounds as if they are reading from a script.

    4. Jim made the contrived confession after the police threatened him.

    5. The movie’s contrived plot about the killer butterflies did not make sense to anyone in the audience.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term contrived

    Like everyone in our city, state and across this nation, we mourned the senseless killing of Jacquelyn Smith. To now learn that family members staged this brutal killing is beyond belief and represents a double tragedy, they were responsible for taking Jacquelyn's life with unconscionable cruelty and contrived to do so in our city under the guise of random violence, exploiting the legitimate fears of our residents.

    – Catherine Pugh

    Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

    – Learned Hand

    There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.

    – Homer

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

    – Andrew Jackson

    The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.

    – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

    The drug menace must stop... Yet the apparent serial summary executions of alleged street drug users or petty drug lords which appear sudden, too contrived and predictable must also stop, the two are not incompatible.

    – Edre Olalia

    The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

    – John F. Kennedy

    Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.

    – Josh Billings

    I do preach the idea of individualism as in not adapting any kind of style or model other than that one of your own. I always found it strange in art history when studying about the different guilds and movements. It sounded too contrived and having to follow devised parameters to create art. I personally am not a team player in that manner. The art should be labeled by the artist's name only.

    – Adamo Macri

    The recent spike in RIN prices appears contrived and driven by something other than basic supply-demand fundamentals.

    – The Renewable Fuels Association

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