Sentence examples similar to contrived badly from inspiring English sources

When younger he fell passionately for a woman named Betty, who craved a baby so badly that she contrived a supernatural pregnancy; Daniel assisted at the birth.

Some jokes are seriously hoary or contrived.

"I used to react badly when people would call it 'iPhotography,' because that seemed too contrived.

"And contrived.

Contrived much?

It's contrived.

Seems totally contrived".

"It felt contrived".

It's not contrived.

Completely contrived myth.

This was not contrived.