• n.
    ⦿an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
    lexical concept
  • the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:contrivance
wn:interlingual indexili:i67007

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelcontrivance