What is the meaning of contrived?

verb

• Make or work out a plan for; devise.
  • usage: "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"
  • synonyms: plan, project, contrive, design
• Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort.
  • usage: "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
  • synonyms: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge
• Put or send forth.
  • usage: "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"
  • synonyms: project, cast, contrive, throw

adjective

• Showing effects of planning or manipulation.
  • usage: "a novel with a contrived ending"
• Artificially formal.
  • usage: "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
  • synonyms: artificial, hokey, stilted