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Often used in the same context:
conceit,
artifice,
silliness,
staginess,
hokum,
artificiality,
insubstantiality,
implausibility,
corniness,
facetiousness,
verisimilitude,
subterfuge,
knowingness,
melodrama,
absurdity,
pomposity,
melodramatics,
triteness,
absurdism,
deus ex machina,
cleverness,
metafiction,
machination,
farce,
grandiloquence,
gimmickry,
archness,
unoriginality,
bathos,
hackwork,
inanity,
grand guignol,
slightness,
sophistry,
whimsy,
pretension,
narrative,
nefariousness,
pompousness,
clownishness,
inconsequentiality,
banality,
literalness,
didacticism,
pedantry,
sappiness,
legerdemain,
woodenness,
dumbness,
smarm,
sentimentalism,
hokey,
roundelay,
indeterminacy,
plotline,
wryness,
believability,
fakery,
salaciousness,
pathos,
flibbertigibbet,
pretentiousness,
grotesquerie,
mundanity,
adorability,
convolutions,
shtick,
ennui,
flummery,
lunkheaded,
simulacrum,
gimcrackery,
stylisation,
nabokovian,
denouement,
zaniness,
trope,
vapidness,
drollness,
fictions,
pastiche,
mendacity,
shavian,
non sequitur,
chicanery,
innocuousness,
abjection,
mawkishness,
fictionalization,
slyness,
inarticulateness,
archaism,
dullard,
high jinks,
superfluity,
weirdness,
tawdriness,
hilarity,
glibness,
meaninglessness,
schmaltz,
affectation,
contrivances,
expedient,
stratagem,
expedients,
gadget,
gimmick,
handiwork,
device,
disguise,
instrument,
invention,
ruse,
inventions,
ploy,
ruses,
sleight,
artifices,
camouflage,
combination
More specific:
gadgetry,
gimbals,
plant,
wangle,
wangling
Appears in the definition of:
injector,
mechanical
More general:
arrangement,
conception,
design,
device,
excogitation,
innovation,
invention,
organisation,
organization,
scheme,
strategy,
system
Synonyms:
appliance,
contraption,
convenience,
devisal,
dodge,
gadget,
gizmo,
lash-up,
stratagem,
widget
Also try:
— Adjectives for contrivance:
mechanical,
ingenious,
simple,
human,
own,
similar,
little,
whole,
mere,
artificial,
admirable,
more...
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