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Example sentences for: contrived

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They are not simply characters who display contrived earnestness and advertise virtues they don't have, like the big smile and self-bestowed nickname Honest John , your friendly usedcar dealer.
While Greek night may strike some visitors as contrived, it is nonetheless an opportunity to see a local art form.
2) The movie may stop Clinton from attacking Iraq, since that move would seem contrived.
The lonely lamp-lit couples in his "Modern Romance" (1984-86), contrived with dolls and miniature props soon after his move to New York City in 1983, effectively evoke the nighttime diners and hotel bedrooms of Edward Hopper and film noir.
Its young protagonist, Harry Odum (Norman Reedus), a fry-cook in the postindustrial wasteland that is Youngstown, Ohio, lives with a shut-in mother, Kate (Deborah Harry), who has contrived to keep him in a state of sexual ignorance.