an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track" contrivancestratagemdodge
the faculty of contriving; inventive skill "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem" contrivance
an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable" contrivance