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effortful
Requiring or showing effort.
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  1. Requiring or showing effort.
forced
Done or brought about by force; not voluntary; compulsory
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  1. Done or brought about by force; not voluntary; compulsory
  2. Imposed by force; involuntary:
  3. Produced under strain; not spontaneous:
labored
Produced or done with effort:
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  1. Produced or done with effort:
  2. Made or done with great effort; not effortless and natural; strained
  3. Of an action that is difficult to perform.
strained
Twisted; wrenched:
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  1. Twisted; wrenched:
  2. Not natural or relaxed; forced
  3. Done with or marked by excessive effort; forced:
Find another word for contrived. In this page you can discover 5 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for contrived, like: effortful, forced, labored, strained and true.

Sentence Examples

  • "I should hope to smile," he said with a contrived southern accent.

  • Not the abbreviated version contrived for a witless or hysterical wife, but the whole thing – including any designs Lori has on you... or you have for her.

  • During the Civil War James was taken prisoner by Fairfax (1646), but contrived to escape to Holland in 1648.

  • Not only did his reason not reproach him for what he had done, but he even found cause for self-satisfaction in having so successfully contrived to avail himself of a convenient opportunity to punish a criminal and at the same time pacify the mob.

  • Though Kutuzov had dismissed all unnecessary men from the staff, Boris had contrived to remain at headquarters after the changes.

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