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Contrived
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1. contrived
showing effects of planning or manipulation
Example Sentences:'a novel with a contrived ending'
2. artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted
artificially formal
Example Sentences:'that artificial humility that her husband hated''contrived coyness''a stilted letter of acknowledgment''when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
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