Crossword-Solution: CONTRIVANCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contrivance | n. | The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. |
| Contrivance | n. | The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement. |
We have 36 clues for the answer “CONTRIVANCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| THING contrived | 1 answer |
| contriving | 2 answers |
| STRUCTURAL plan | 6 answers |
| AD hoc measure | 9 answers |
| Wangle | 10 answers |
| Contraption | 13 answers |
| robot | 15 answers |
| Wheeze | 19 answers |
| Coinage. | 19 answers |
| Mechanism. | 23 answers |
| Jigger. | 30 answers |
| Gimmick | 30 answers |
| machination | 36 answers |
| Jig | 37 answers |
| Gadget | 38 answers |
| __ machine | 38 answers |
| Invention. | 39 answers |
| Brainchild | 40 answers |
| Apparatus | 42 answers |
| Means | 56 answers |
| generalship | 59 answers |
| Object | 60 answers |
| Scheme | 61 answers |
| Tool. | 63 answers |
| Instrument | 65 answers |
| Device | 75 answers |
| Artifice | 75 answers |
| Plot | 75 answers |
| expedient | 76 answers |
| ingenuity | 76 answers |
| ordering | 78 answers |
| Stratagem | 79 answers |
| putting in order | 80 answers |
| Design | 80 answers |
| Game Plan | 82 answers |
| Idea | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
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greedy person
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Sentences with CONTRIVANCE (5)
With his florid cheek, his compact figure smartly arrayed in a bright-buttoned blue coat, his brisk and vigorous step, and his hale and hearty aspect, altogether he seemed—not young, indeed—but a kind of new contrivance of Mother Nature in the shape of man, whom age and infirmity had no business to touch.
That the hair was her own, she instantaneously felt as well satisfied as Marianne; the only difference in their conclusions was, that what Marianne considered as a free gift from her sister, Elinor was conscious must have been procured by some theft or contrivance unknown to herself.
This time he would go right on to Castle Boterel; ramble in that well-known neighbourhood during the evening and next morning, making inquiries; and return to Plymouth to meet them as arranged—a contrivance which would leave their cherished project undisturbed, relieving his own impatience also.
Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's ~, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.
Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.
Quotes with CONTRIVANCE (3)
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonder…
If you do not believe in reincarnation then the word “prarabdh” (karma effect) should not be present in your vocabulary. Christian, Muslim, and other religion’s language is complete, but the belief is incomplete. Fortune, contrivance, lucky, unlucky — where did they get all that from? This is all a connection from the past life.
We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like virtually every public construct, is a legacy of a primordial and tribal mentality.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1978).