If you see something that seems fake since it was too perfectly planned out, call it contrived. If you can easily predict the final minutes of a made for TV movie, then call it contrived.
Adjective S.
artificially formal; "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"
Adjective S.
showing effects of planning or manipulation; "a novel with a contrived ending"
imp. & p. p.
of Contrive
Usage Examples
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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Other Usage ExamplesThere is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
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