Contrives is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTRIVES in dictionary:

VERB:
• CONTRIVE, to devise
• create or bring about (an object or a situation) by deliberate use of skill and artifice
• manage to do something foolish or create an undesirable situation

Words related to CONTRIVES

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How to use CONTRIVES in a sentence

• This young lady is the more admirable as she contrives to unite all the multifarious duties which usually devolve upon American ladies, with her intellectual pursuits.
• Maryland, under protection of our army, adroitly contrives to shift the scene of action farther South.
• This figure is placed in a singular shrine, lighted by a dome, that somehow contrives to suggest a mixture between a swimming-bath and the smoking-room of a hotel.
• But as our new-built city rises higher, 20 So from old theatres may new aspire, Since fate contrives magnificence by fire.
• A friend of mine has one, and only one, good story, respecting a gun, which he contrives to introduce upon all occasions, by the following simple, but ingenious device.
• In other cases, a person is let down by means of a rope, which is held above by four or five men, and contrives to destroy the eggs or young.
• Clitandre, but always contrives to turn the tables on her husband.
• Ruth contrives to get into her hands the deeds, which she delivers over to the two colonels, and when Mr.
• He contrives to gain possession of her, and drawing his knife, gives her the choice between death and his wigwam.
• Occasionally a river, rising within the mountains, forces its way through the barrier, and so contrives to reach the sea.
• But how she contrives it without reflecting on the character of her own father, who had himself two wives, I know not.
• He now contrives to make the King believe that neither his life nor reign can be in any danger as long as he is in his present position.
• At last, however, through the good offices of Pedrillo, he contrives to gain admission in the character of an architect.
• Later in the opera Arthur contrives to meet Elvira and explains his conduct satisfactorily, but their interview is cut short by a party of Puritans, who arrest him.
• She speedily contrives to get the banker out of the way and rushes into the arms of her old lover, Marcel.
• It contrives to get the most annoyance out of both plans.
• But remember that Fridolin sometimes contrives to escape and have the guilty scorched.
• An illiterate clown he is, who, visiting New York, contrives by vice of impudence, to interfere very seriously with certain conventionalities of the metropolis.
• The ingenuity and perseverance of self-interest is proof against prohibitions, and contrives to elude the vigilance of the most active government.
• One thing about Di, which makes men adore her, is that she contrives to seem exquisitely sympathetic and enthusiastic without ever gushing.
• He also contrives to give the impression that he refers to “the other fellow,” not to you.
• It invariably contrives to let down some string while winding up another.
• Even where it is not merely implied, but directly expressed, he contrives to give it the air of having been accidentally suggested by the theme.
• At the same time the Poet so contrives Matters, that the two Criminals are the Favourites of the Audience.
• Without filing down her characters into types she contrives to lift them into universal figures of aspiration or disappointment.
• It is with palm-wine so prepared, however, that his Majesty contrives to get tipsy with such punctuality.
• But before doing so, and without informing any one, except her confessor, of her intention, she contrives a somewhat dramatic scene for the purpose of exposing her false lover.
• Her costume is not expensive, and she contrives that, whatever she wears shall not offend against the laws of Fashion, while she declines to be its slave.
• So Blacky always contrives to go to bed early and is securely hidden away in his secret roosting-place by the time the Black Shadows reach the edge of the Green Forest.
• I would sooner keep company with a man from whom I must guard my pockets, than with a man who contrives to bring me into a dispute with somebody that he may hear it.
• They had no playthings and no companions and no pleasures but such as the innocent invention of childhood contrives for itself.
• Necessity being the mother of invention, he contrives some plan for bringing together books on the same subject.

Similar words containing NTRIVE without suffix s and without prefix co

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