It's shamelessly contrived, but refreshingly outrageous. Sure, it was contrived, and convoluted to boot. The brothers have maintained that their shows are not contrived or scripted. This is sometimes achieved by emphasizing the unnatural look of an image which seems contrived. "Postal" debuted to mixed reviews from critics who found it to be contrived and predictable. Grayson's apparent incompetence and inability to remember what was going on was carefully contrived. However, the TDK is occasionally criticized for coining words which sound contrived and artificial. However, many pages follow describing how such sequences might be contrived in general. What is destined cannot be contrived by the human intellect or foreseen. Nonce words are sometimes contrived to rhyme with "orange". More unusually, it's not contrived. The trial evidence against Daley and Halligan was sparse, circumstantial, contrived, and perjurious. He praised the author's courage to write "an ending few Western novelists would have contrived". The latter was not contrived by the artist, but was part of Gautreau's self-display. Jane, however, has contrived his own nervous breakdown in order to draw out his adversary.