contrived

About 2.50 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb simple past and past participle of contrive
2. adjective Created in a deliberate, rather than natural or spontaneous, way.

   contrived joke

3. adjective Unnatural, forced; artificial, or unrealistic.

Similar words

artificial affected planned unnatural stilted man-made manmade human-made manufactured fired

Often followed by

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