Unnatural ; Forced ; Lacking Realness
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Construe: to explain; interpretI struggled to construe the emotion her eyes held, but her dark sunglasses made interpreting her emotions impossible.It is difficult to construe the meaning of your question without some sort of context.
The root word, sesquipedalian, means "given to long words". This could describe a speech or some form of written communication and has negative connotations, i.e., the piece is difficult to understand because of the contrived use of long words for which shorter words could have been used, possibly designed by the speaker/writer to sound smarter or more educated than they are. If we add the suffix -ist to it, one can assume that it would mean "one who is prone to the contrived over-usage of long words". The prefix anti- can indicate to the opposite meaning of the word or opposition to the concept. Therefore, an antisesquipedalianist is either one who uses small words or one who is opposed to the contrived over-usage of long words. Personally, my own pithier and more ironically humorous definition of the word is one who is opposed to the use of long words. How strictly correct my definition is can be debated, but it generally gets giggles, so I'll keep it.
For drafted as in "formulated":adumbrated, characterized, composed, contrived, designed, fashioned, formulated, outlined, planned.For drafted as in "select for military force":called up, chose, enlisted, indited, recruited.
1. Do you find the book's plot "contrived" as one critic puts it-another triumph-of-the-underdog story? Or do you find it humorous and face-paced as others have said? Could it be both?2. One reviewer refers to it as a fable? What might that mean? In other words, what is a fable, and what elements of it fable can be found in Playing for Pizza?3. 3. Do you feel the descriptions of Italian culture add to or detract from the the story?4. Do you think the book was predictable?
I think you mean contrived.That is a contrived excuse.She contrived to be nearby when he walked out of class.
artificial, lacking verisimilitude
Contrived experiences lead to a suspension of a disbelief. In other words, during the period of experience, the learner believes in the reality of the experience.
what are contrived experiences?
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Concerted means contrived or arranged by agreement or planned or devised together.
a contrived experience i something
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The murderer contrived to construct an alibi to avoid detection.
In this context, the word "contrived" means artfully crafted or deliberately created. It suggests that the creation being described has been carefully orchestrated or skillfully constructed.
Her story seemed contrived so no one believed her.