contriver

Example Sentences

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Yet it is still hard for the reader to get truly inside the mind of this complex Kennedy, somehow both a “Machiavellian contriver and man of conscience”.

From Economist • Jul. 7, 2016

Mr. Requa is a good negotiator, an able "contriver" who will pull, if anybody can, the Colorado Springs conference through to success for his great & good friend in the White House.

From Time Magazine Archive

More low-keyed and taciturn, Bunker was an inspired contriver of compromises.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is, in the language of book reviewers, a "slick man," a contriver of "adroit hokum," which is hopelessly "fast-moving" and unreclaimably "superficial."

From Time Magazine Archive

These are the wretched forgeries of that unworthy man who has won your confidence—a man who is no less an enemy to your happiness than he is a selfish contriver against mine.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton