Definition of "contriving" [contriving]

• Present participle of contrive. (verb)

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• "In this abundant world, the role of publishers and editors is more crucial than ever, in contriving scarcity for the benefit of readers, whose time is short."
• "The Relation's ingenuity in contriving to give away whatever plums were given to her was quite amazing, and she generally managed to"
• "As the child grew more accustomed to Miss Asphyxia, while her hatred of her increased, somewhat of that native hardihood which had characterized her happier days returned; and she began to use all the subtlety and secretiveness which belonged to her feminine nature in contriving how not to do the will of her tyrant, and yet not to seem designedly to oppose."