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contriving

ADJECTIVE

calculating

Synonyms

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canny considerate devious manipulative scheming shrewd wily

STRONG

designing guarded premeditating

WEAK

Machiavellian artful careful cautious chary circumspect crafty cunning discreet gingerly guileful intelligent politic safe sharp sly wary

Antonyms

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foolish honest open

WEAK

artless naive unassuming uncalculating

ADJECTIVE

deep

Synonyms

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acute sharp tricky

STRONG

cunning designing keen knowing

WEAK

artful astute canny crafty foxy guileful insidious intriguing plotting shrewd sly wily

Antonyms

STRONGEST

aboveboard frank honest

WEAK

artless open

ADJECTIVE

diplomatic

Synonyms

STRONGEST

conciliatory gracious polite strategic

WEAK

adept arch artful astute bland brainy cagey calculating capable clever conniving courteous crafty cunning deft delicate dexterous discreet guileful intriguing opportunistic prudent savvy scheming sensitive sharp shrewd sly smooth suave subtle wily

Antonyms

STRONGEST

rude

WEAK

artless impolite tactless

ADJECTIVE

Machiavellian

Synonyms

STRONG

cunning expedient opportunist

WEAK

artful astute calculating conniving crafty deceitful devious plotting shrewd sly underhanded unscrupulous wily

ADJECTIVE

operating

Synonyms

STRONGEST

performing running

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accomplishing administering conducting determining directing driving executing finishing fulfilling guiding maintaining managing manipulating moving ordering practicing regulating revolving serving spinning supervising sustaining transacting turning using wielding

WEAK

at work

ADJECTIVE

shifty

Synonyms

STRONGEST

cagey crafty shrewd slippery sneaky tricky wily

WEAK

collusive conniving crooked cunning devious dishonest dodging duplicitous elusive equivocating evasive fly-by-night foxy fraudulent furtive insidious lying mendacious prevaricative prevaricatory roguish scheming shady shuffling slick slimy sly treacherous underhand unhonest unprincipled untruthful

Antonyms

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aboveboard frank honest naive

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forthright trustworthy

NOUN

making

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STRONGEST

formulation

STRONG

authoring building causation composition conception constituting construction designing devising fabrication fancying fashioning forging occasioning origination performing planning producing production shaping

Antonyms

STRONG

destruction ruin

Example Sentences

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The FDA implicitly concedes that the RP1 results are impressive by contriving ridiculous reasons to argue they could be exaggerated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Warren Zaire-Emery was punished for contriving to strike the post with the goal gaping as Mats Hummels arrowed in a towering header to score for Dortmund shortly after.

From BBC • May 7, 2024

Perhaps his primary knack was for contriving a tension between immaculate optics and human entropy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2023

Figuring out a flow chart of blame is contriving chaos into organization.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2021

I counted to one hundred as I rocked, contriving the patience to get one down in order to take up another.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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