Words and phrases that have a meaning related to contriving:  (145 results)
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concocting, conspire, exculpating, aggrandise, seeming, attempting, machinated, scuttling, dragooning, sabotaging, plotting, scheming, conjuring, confecting, pettifogging, aggrandize, exploiting, gulling, manipulating, pretending, dissimulate, balkanise, disorientate, disorganise, wheedling, disguising, snaffling, obfuscating, footling, inveigling, fomenting, chivvy, inducing, bamboozling, dunderheaded, entangling, disembowelling, unpicking, staving, blundering, conflating, devising, recriminating, reifying, backbite, eliding, misdirecting, orchestrated, ramify, elongating, faits accomplis, proffering, suborn, forcing, connive, beguile, contenting, hoicks, overplaying, clodhopping, provoking, resorting, ossifying, befooling, revenges, pouncing, overbalancing, nobble, immolating, frittering, warding, bemuse, cavilling, lobbing, disorganize, estranging, finesses, aggressing, duffing, nicking, hoodwinks, discombobulate, scything, flicking, dissembling, enervate, miring, demotivate, entrapping, truncating, subverting, checkmating, camouflaging, tempted, traducing, truckling, scarifying, thwarting, wonted, distorting, transmutes, daft, forethought, courting, machination, contrivance, pondering, choosing, deceit, deception, deliberation, disquiet, evasion, foresight, premeditation, trickery, arguing, artifice, circumspection, coaxing, cogitation, crafty, faced, haired, hanged, recreant, adorable, aged, anointed, bearded, beardless, beloved, blond, browed, cheeked, crucified, dear, deified, devoted, disgraced, exiled
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— Adjectives for contriving: own, much, human, little, rational, conscious, busy, secret, ingenious, deliberate, constant, more...

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