contrive and contrived - I am contriving a plan to get rich quick

contrive

/kənˈtraɪv/

verb 3 transitive controver ‘imagine, invent’, "with, together" (see con-) + tropus "song, musical mode,"

to think of or make something, for example a plan or a machine, in a clever way

They contrived a plan to defraud the company.

The prisoners contrived a way to escape.

contrived

adjective

/kənˈtraɪvd/

(disapproving)

​planned in advance and not natural or what somebody claims it is; written or arranged in a way that is not natural or realistic

a contrived situation

The book's happy ending seemed contrived.

The mass tourist travels in guided groups and finds pleasure in inauthentic contrived attrctions.

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