contriving 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

Use "contriving" in a sentence

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

2. 11 synonyms for Conniving: scheming, designing, plotting, calculating, conspiring, contriving

3. Ephesians 4:14 says that they are “cunning in contriving error.”

4. We're cutting and contriving to make both ends meet.

5. 11 synonyms for Conniving: scheming, designing, plotting, calculating, conspiring, contriving

6. 21 Applying biotechnology was an important means in improving strawberry varieties and contriving new germ plasm.

7. 6 She is a unicorn, thought Jay,(www.Sentencedict.com) contriving ways to have their paths cross.

8. A spiritual babe is easily “tossed about as by waves and carried hither and thither by every wind of teaching by means of the trickery of men, by means of cunning in contriving error.”

9. 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?

10. Definition of Crossbar : a transverse bar or stripe Examples of Crossbar in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web The most agonizing miss was still to come, though, with the ball rolling across the face of goal from Coady's attempt for Wolves and Romain Saiss contriving to lift the ball over the Crossbar from almost right on the goal-line.

11. To the Christians in Ephesus, the apostle Paul wrote: “He gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelizers, some as shepherds and teachers, with a view to the readjustment of the holy ones, for ministerial work, for the building up of the body of the Christ, until we all attain to the oneness in the faith and in the accurate knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of stature that belongs to the fullness of the Christ; in order that we should no longer be babes, tossed about as by waves and carried hither and thither by every wind of teaching by means of the trickery of men, by means of cunning in contriving error.” —Ephesians 4:11-14.