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Contrived

//kənˈtɹaɪvd// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Created in a deliberate, rather than natural or spontaneous, way.

    "contrived joke"

  2. 2
    Unnatural, forced; artificial, or unrealistic.
Adjective
  1. 1
    artificially formal wordnet
  2. 2
    showing effects of planning or manipulation wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of contrive form-of, participle, past

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