contrives in English

verb

1

create or bring about (an object or a situation) by deliberate use of skill and artifice.

his opponents contrived a crisis

synonyms: bring about, engineer, manufacture, orchestrate, stage-manage, create, devise, concoct, construct, plan, fabricate, plot, hatch, wangle, set up

verb

bring about, engineer, manufacture, orchestrate, stage-manage, create, devise, concoct, construct, plan, fabricate, plot, hatch, wangle, set up
forge, devise, formulate, excogitate, invent
project, design, plan
project, cast, throw

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1. Another way to say Contrives? Synonyms for Contrives (other words and phrases for Contrives).

2. Definition of Contrives in the Definitions.net dictionary

3. What does Contrives mean? Information and translations of Contrives in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web.

4. Contriving (plural Contrivings) The act of one who contrives

5. Politics Media Contrives New Hysteria Out of Violent Trump Meme Video

6. What does Contriver mean? A person who contrives; a schemer or planner

7. Henry contrives guided missiles from acid rain test kit and launches attack on manger.

8. Contrives meaning Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contrive.

9. ‘It Contrives to combine boastfulness, ignorance, insecurity and hostility in ample and self-reinforcing measures.’ ‘And, like a rash that won't go away, he Contrives to be everywhere.’ ‘For a man who spends so much time in the gym and out on the golf course, he Contrives to keep remarkably poor health.’

10. See 3 authoritative translations of Contrives in Spanish with example sentences, conjugations and audio pronunciations.

11. More subtle than something someone Contrives Your movements echo that I've seen the real thing

12. Antonyms for Contrives include breaks, demolishes, destroys, discourages, disorganizes, dissuades, forgets, neglects, razes and ruins

13. In the first, Cardinal Wolsey contrives the Attainting of his enemy, the Duke of Buckingham.

14. Synonyms for Colludes include connives, conspires, intrigues, machinates, plots, schemes, collaborates, contrives, complots and abets

15. This page shows answers to the clue Contriver.Contriver may be defined as “One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas”

16. The post College student Contrives imaginative ‘Disney Nanny’ business appeared first on In The Know

17. The crossword clue Contrives. with 7 letters was last seen on the January 01, 1966

18. Yet Coppola finally Contrives a female and arguably feminist perspective on this story that Don Siegel didn’t

19. Providence Contrives better for us than we do for ourselves; we must refer ourselves to God's guidance

20. 'The World as Scenery' Contrives to include Congreve, Pope, Bibiena, Piranesi, Soane, Gothic novels, Venice as scenery, and Vanbrugh.

21. Contrives definition: come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort synonyms: invent, formulate, devise, forge, excogitate

22. However, this is actually better than what was expected, with this reduction being much smaller than in other developed Contrives

23. A shrewd new entrepreneur Contrives to topple Grant and the Brown brothers alike, and Lord Benton's obsession with Harp disintegrates into savagery

24. One that contrives, devises, or constructs something: "She was the single Artificer of the world / In which she sang" (Wallace Stevens).

25. Dietrich Contrives to have a German soldier impersonate Major Lansing, be picked up by the Rat Patrol and taken to headquarters, where he is to assassinate an Allied general

26. Within days he Contrives to drive a car while uninsured, start a relationship with another woman without notifying anyone, go hookey from his job and break the terms of his curfew

27. Because the news Contrives to frighten you To make you feel small and alone To make you feel that your mind isn't your own I spent the day in bed It's a consolation When all my dreams Are perfectly legal In sheets for which I paid I am now laid And I recommend to all of my friends that they Stop watching the news! Because the news Contrives to

28. ‘It contrives to combine Boastfulness, ignorance, insecurity and hostility in ample and self-reinforcing measures.’ ‘They must choose between a brash Boastfulness and a considered confidence that speaks to the convictions of people everywhere.’

29. >definition: create or bring about, source>”And I, the mistress of your charms, the close Contriver of all harms.” (Hecate, The Tragedy of Macbeth, 3.5.6-7)>I believe positivity contrives good times

30. NOTE: As I was writing this piece, I just saw that never-Trump conservative New York Times columnist Bret Stephens just posted an article entitled “Trump Contrives His Stab-In-The-Back Myth.” I guess conservatives like Stephens and progressive like me sometimes agree.

31. contriving (pl. Contrivings) The act of one who contrives. 2007, Steve Talbott, Devices of the Soul (page 192) Do we really want all those strivings and Contrivings —all those thoughts and assumptions someone has cleverly etched into the hardware and software we are using—to remain invisible?

32. “No sooner do I photograph one of the world’s lovely spots than man Contrives to pave it, dam it or develop it.” Last word “Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived