contrive russian

• подстро́ить

  to contrive, to rig, to set up, to bring about by secret plotting

  to tune, to adjust, to fine-tune

  to build on, to add (an extension), to annex

• мастери́ть

  to make, to contrive

• угора́здить

  to manage, to happen, to contrive

• уду́мать

  to think up, to devise, to contrive, to come up with

• ухитри́ться

  to manage to, to contrive

• подстра́ивать

  to contrive, to engineer, to rig, to cook up

  to build on, to add on, to annex (an extension)

  to tune (to another instrument), to tune up

• ухитря́ться

  to manage to, to contrive

• комбини́ровать

  to combine, to arrange, to scheme, to contrive

• исхитри́ться

  to manage, to contrive, to find a way, to be resourceful

• сподо́бить

  to manage, to come, to contrive

• хими́чить

  to cheat, to fiddle, to play tricks, to swindle

  to tinker, to concoct, to contrive, to experiment

• измышля́ть

  to fabricate, to invent, to concoct, to contrive

• изощри́ться

  to refine one's skill, to become more skillful, to become sophisticated, to become more artful

  to contrive, to devise (something intricate), to be inventive

• наду́манный

  far-fetched, made-up, fabricated, contrived

  artificial, forced, unnatural

• вы́верт

  quirk, eccentricity, caper, vagary

  affectation, mannerism, contrived turn of phrase

  twist, contortion

• наду́манность

  contrivedness, far-fetchedness, artificiality, unnaturalness

• умудри́вшийся

  having managed, having contrived, who managed (to do something)

• му́дрствование

  philosophizing, abstruse reasoning, pondering, hair-splitting

  contrived idea, far-fetched notion, crackpot idea

• ухитри́вшийся

  who managed, having contrived, resourceful

• наду́мавший

  having decided, having thought up, having imagined, having contrived

• умудри́вший

  who managed, who contrived, who was clever enough to

• исхитри́вшийся

  who contrived, who managed cleverly, who ingeniously figured out, resourceful

Examples

• Грамматически всё правильно, но стилисти́чески как-то искусственно звучи́т.

  Everything is grammatically correct, but stylistically it sounds somehow contrived.

• Автор придумал надуманный конец для хорошего романа.

  The author came up with a contrived ending for a good novel.

• В этой истории чувствуется явная надуманность.

  This story clearly feels contrived.