Contriving is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTRIVING 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 CONTRIVING

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How to use CONTRIVING in a sentence

• The days and nights of Inigo Jones were spent in inventing machinery and contriving stage-effects.
• It was about this time when the Rawdon Crawleys, after contriving to live well on nothing a year, for a considerable period, came to smash.
• With all that, he was the best fellow in the world, and he was always contriving some mischief or other.
• These days I spent in contriving how and in what manner I should fix my place of abode.
• Suddenly, and very clumsily, I rocked sideways to reach my hip- pocket, contriving to jog his elbow and spill what was already in the cup.
• Taking matters by and large, Philippe had all the powers of common-sense to back him in contriving an assassination.
• He was for ever contriving delicate little gifts for those in want, planning pleasant little surprises for people whom he loved.
• Out of thee shall come forth one that imagineth evil against the Lord, contriving treachery in his mind.
• For one thing, he was mortally afraid that she might suddenly bethink herself of Paul and Virginia, and be annoyed by a situation which was certainly none of his contriving.
• They are every day contriving parties of pleasure, and making the most gallant little presents imaginable to the ladies.
• Joan had overlooked one possibility in contriving her plan, and that possibility, now developed into fact, threatened to ruin all.
• He would cease this petty watchfulness, this campaign of planning and contriving lest others should monopolize more of her smiles and pleasant words than he.
• Blunt was continually, and in the most weird and wonderful ways, contriving to force Merry into tests of strength and skill.
• He imagined that they were contriving against his own life, and included Serfojee in his hatred.
• Yet she wore her honors modestly, contriving to share this homage with some other, and never accepting it as all meant for herself.
• Long they lived in peace together, Spake with naked hearts together, Pondering much and much contriving How the tribes of men might prosper.
• The instinct for acquisition is so strong that men are constantly contriving new and improved methods for getting property.
• I would not advise my readers to disturb themselves by contriving how they shall live without light and water.
• And I spent the two next days, being the 19th and 20th of April, in contriving where and how to remove my habitation.
• This put me on contriving Schemes to answer the Extent of my Ambition.
• When you first suggested it, I saw what a fine thing you were contriving for your brother.
• I never opened my lips, but was busy contriving some scheme which might enable me to give the rascals the slip before dawn.
• Duncombe was as usual the guiding spirit, contriving all with a cleverness that made the deficiencies of her household the more remarkable.
• Many a harmless maid has she brought to ruin by contriving plots and events herself, and then pretending to foretell them.
• Her talents for contriving, for buying, and, in short, for making a shilling do the utmost that a shilling was capable of, had been observable from her earliest days.
• She admired him for contriving it, though not able to give him much credit for the manner in which it was announced.
• His wife however was wholly employed in contriving how to set him at liberty.
• On the view of this subject, a thousand uses suggest themselves to a contriving mind.
• If you did not like those which in England we have chosen, your leaders might have exerted their abilities in contriving better.
• You use the liquid by contriving that the desired man shall take about ten drops of it in his drink.
• Well, they were justified! But the maddening thing was, she had afterward to admit, that the disaster had been largely of her own contriving.

Similar words containing NTRIV without suffix ing and without prefix co

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