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What is another word for
contriving
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Verb
Having an opportunity, or an intention, to arrive at a specified outcome
Present participle for to contrive of (something) using skill or ingenuity
Present participle for to make secret plans, especially to do something illicit or unlawful
Present participle for to bring about or cause something to happen
Present participle for to carry out a plan with a specific purpose in mind
Present participle for to obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods or by trickery
Present participle for to indulge in fantasies about something desired
Present participle for to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a minimal level
Present participle for attempt to get
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
Present participle for to ascertain through analysis or investigation
Present participle for to build or alter according to personal preferences or specifications
Adjective
Working in conjunction with another to deceitfully achieve one's goals
Causing to function
Noun
The action of building something, typically a large structure
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Verb
▲
Having an opportunity, or an intention, to arrive at a specified outcome
getting
arranging
finding a way
engineering a way
managing
succeeding in
organizing
US
working it
fixing it
compassing
coordinating
designing
maneuvering
US
manoeuvring
UK
organising
UK
succeeding
wangling
manipulating
engineering
finagling
machinating
finessing
plotting
negotiating
masterminding
devising
scheming
framing
jockeying
working
planning
fixing
rigging
playing games
orchestrating
setting up
stage-managing
pulling strings
pulling wires
directing
exploiting
choreographing
conspiring
swinging
intriguing
controlling
conducting
effecting
handling
bringing off
achieving
angling
laying plans
wheeling and dealing
hooking
steering
fiddling
causing
influencing
one-upping
beguiling
conniving
bluffing
hustling
colluding
playing
lobbying
bringing about
originating
mobilizing
US
superintending
mounting
concocting
pulling off
staging
encompassing
creating
constructing
concerting
putting together
supervising
fixing up
putting over
scamming
putting on
coming up with
cooking
operating
conning
putting one over
conceiving
putting through
doctoring
mobilising
UK
upstaging
planting
executing
swinging it
cogitating
hitting upon
carrying out
wrangling
elaborating
developing
shifting
projecting
passing
more ❯
“Where other managements would somehow
contrive
to squeeze double the number of rooms within the same confines, they always seems to go in the opposite direction, as though trying to see how few rooms he can incorporate.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to contrive of (something) using skill or ingenuity
devising
concocting
fabricating
manufacturing
constructing
creating
engineering
designing
planning
plotting
inventing
formulating
framing
orchestrating
scheming
stage-managing
wangling
cooking up
excogitating
hatching
improvising
thinking up
bringing about
dreaming up
effecting
procuring
becasting
causing to happen
coming up with
drumming up
fashioning
forging
forming
handling
making
making up
moving
projecting
rigging
trumping up
vamping
vamping up
working out
hitting upon
setting up
casting about
laying out
throwing together
whipping up
developing
conceiving
putting together
producing
arranging
composing
originating
organizing
US
preparing
crafting
organising
UK
shaping
masterminding
drawing up
machinating
coining
drafting
evolving
brewing
establishing
building
assembling
outlining
brainstorming
putting up
casting
blueprinting
imagining
mapping out
moulding
UK
choreographing
discovering
modelling
UK
modeling
US
generating
intriguing
molding
US
turning out
charting
sparking
thinking of
initiating
fixing up
instituting
pioneering
conspiring
laying
calculating
spawning
budgeting
scheming out
strategizing about
coordinating
hammering out
cogitating
conceiving of
innovating
fixing
founding
causing
knocking off
cobbling together
conjuring up
maneuvering
US
getting ready
hitting on
manoeuvring
UK
knocking together
authoring
erecting
managing
begetting
regulating
confecting
envisioning
instigating
marshaling
US
marshalling
UK
doping out
finagling
working
compassing
launching
readying
cultivating
knocking up
carving out
throwing up
manipulating
sketching
pondering
directing
raising
ad-libbing
engendering
bearing
strategizing
executing
envisaging
yielding
compiling
piecing
beginning
structuring
conniving
setting out
setting
blocking out
playing it by ear
promoting
realising
UK
realizing
US
contemplating
thrashing out
effectuating
bringing on
working up
rustling up
colluding
inaugurating
instilling
actualizing
rigging up
fitting together
making arrangements for
negotiating
finessing
shaping up
pulling together
introducing
advancing
conducting
running
mapping
disposing
synthesizing
US
giving rise to
tracing
starting
codifying
anticipating
delineating
fitting
inducing
ruminating
arraying
rationalizing
US
standardizing
US
schematizing
rendering
writing
scheduling
bringing into being
rearing
provoking
spitballing
adjusting
sketching out
joining
knocking out
roughing out
churning out
occasioning
achieving
quarterbacking
driving
affecting
diagramming
diagraming
bringing forth
faking it
breeding
synthesising
UK
catalyzing
US
putting in place
bringing to pass
visualizing
US
visualising
UK
catalysing
UK
constituting
methodizing
deciding
determining
sorting out
forecasting
spinning
grinding out
starting up
sparking off
translating into
piecing together
building up
jacking up
making uniform
tightening up
straightening up
feigning
furthering
systemizing
weaving
steering
faking
standardising
UK
rationalising
UK
fostering
drawing
prefabbing
resulting in
controlling
parenting
procreating
prepping
supervising
purposing
deriving
dreaming
adapting
improvisating
invoking
fulfilling
superintending
contributing
leading
leading to
thinking out
bringing out
compounding
programming
grooming
ushering in
pulling strings
comping
administrating
administering
performing
materializing
US
jury-rigging
making arrangements
accomplishing
stirring up
triggering
precipitating
prompting
spurring
overseeing
making provision
perfecting
setting in motion
playing a part in
evoking
imaging
activating
fomenting
presiding over
materialising
UK
making ready
culminating in
putting on
putting in motion
getting up
making do
eliciting
spearheading
thinking on one's feet
influencing
winging it
playing a role in
completing
cutting
picturing
speculating
providing
dashing off
amounting to
contributing to
seeing to
carrying out
getting going
inspiring
bringing into existence
seeing about
bringing
tailoring
fudging together
setting off
cobbling up
being responsible for
bringing off
laying the foundations of
making plans
adding up to
conducing
making preparations for
preparing for
patching together
penciling in
putting in order
settling on
conducing to
sculpturing
jerry-building
flying by the seat of one's pants
running up
causing to occur
intending
proposing
conceptualizing
US
fabling
floating
classifying
processing
conceptualising
UK
setting down
working something out
adumbrating
telling
recounting
narrating
uncovering
stumbling upon
mooting
swinging
maturing
batching
propagating
finding
detecting
penning
skeletoning
roughing
relating
harvesting
ordering
ranging
sequencing
tabulating
comprising
making for
connecting
mass-producing
sculpting
carving
hewing
stamping
fabulizing
unfolding
reaching an agreement
scripting
scribing
ideating
conceiting
planning ahead
implementing
whipping out
eking out
mixing up
slapping together
coming upon
planning for
hatching a plot
fictionalising
UK
fictionalizing
US
storifying
combining
categorizing
US
rattling off
considering
counterfeiting
making up off the top of one's head
extemporizing
US
describing
revolutionizing
US
working on
carpentering
reconstructing
prefabricating
edifying
superstructing
emerging
siring
finding a way
studying
elaborating
cogitating on
finishing
patterning
consummating
estimating
predicting
deliberating
laying on
having
throwing
weighing
obtaining
getting
cranking out
categorising
UK
systematising
UK
systematizing
US
uniting
having the bright idea of
elevating
equipping
supplying
editing
minting
fangling
extemporising
UK
making it up
reckoning
expecting
banging out
perpending
sewing
accoutreing
outfitting
accoutring
furnishing
settling
mixing
breaking open
laying eggs
coming out
giving forth
giving birth
laying plans
appointing
endowing
kicking off
coming out with
modernizing
US
fathering
issuing
commencing
resolving
patching up
welding
lumping together
joining up
sewing up
drawing together
erecting hastily
assembling hastily
setting up hastily
patenting
supposing
extrapolating
coming to terms about
coming to an agreement
coming to terms
pulling things together
agreeing on
setting stage
ironing out
making plans for
agreeing to
tossing off
inciting
encouraging
having a hand in
stimulating
impelling
adding to
being a factor in
minding
revolutionising
UK
inducting
ringing in
modernising
UK
starting out
giving birth to
whomping up
fitting out
smoothing the way
filling in
calling forth
pushing forward
attaining
opening the door for
arousing
starting off
opening up
enkindling
having a part in
spelling
helping
entailing
drawing out
being partly responsible for
triggering off
having the effect of
carrying off
carrying through
oiling the wheels of
forwarding
pulling off
touching off
making happen
finishing in
making possible
kindling
ending in
gauging
UK
educing
premeditating
slating
mulling over
predetermining
representing
detailing
governing
simulating
planning out
mobilizing
US
ruling
piloting
thinking ahead
jamming
making hastily
preparing hastily
preparing roughly
making roughly
slapdashing
putting together roughly
putting together hastily
punting
commanding
foreseeing
gaging
US
featuring
visioning
thinking
foretelling
seeing
chalking out
meditating
spoofing
learning
bracing
getting off
fixing to
figuring out
laying in provisions
figuring on
lining up
reckoning on
bargaining for
roughing in
mounting
mobilising
UK
timetabling
concerting
shamming
doing offhand
conjuring
keeping
operating
overlooking
stewarding
allowing
imbibing
mastering
grasping
dissimulating
dissembling
swaying
dealing with
relying on your wits
doing off the top of your head
funnelling
UK
coxswaining
carrying on
trailblazing
beaconing
having control of
funneling
US
guiding
taking control of
navigating
channeling
US
channelling
UK
pointing
having a handle on
taking charge of
straightening out
taking care of
budgeting for
getting off the ground
looking after
getting together
licking into shape
staging
acquiring
assimilating
practicing
US
guarding
summoning
picking up
taking measures
making provision for
laying the groundwork
taking steps
practising
UK
forearming oneself
taking precautions
calling
making a pretence of
making a show of
giving the appearance of
taking up
calling up
producing as by magic
training
making preparations
priming
warming up
more ❯
“The real miracle, though, is that you could
contrive
a way to have a food crisis.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make secret plans, especially to do something illicit or unlawful
plotting
conspiring
conniving
machinating
scheming
intriguing
colluding
compassing
putting up
caballing
planning
manoeuvring
UK
complotting
collaborating
wangling
devising
maneuvering
US
being in cahoots
hatching a plot
finagling
angling
cogitating
abetting
laying plans
participating in a conspiracy
forming a conspiracy
consorting
operating
cooking up
working hand in glove
getting in bed with
coconspiring
hatching
framing up
taking part in a conspiracy
helping
assisting
diddling
framing
working together
setting up
cooperating
fraternizing
US
making secret plans
countenancing
keeping in countenance
fostering
sympathizing
US
fraternising
UK
sympathising
UK
working close
joining together
getting together
aiding and abetting
confederating
wiring
promoting
colloguing
hatching treason
working against
working something out
putting out a contract
designing
wheeling and dealing
conceiving a plan
hatching plans
engineering plans
formulating plans
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to bring about or cause something to happen
effecting
achieving
accomplishing
carrying out
conducting
enacting
realising
UK
realizing
US
attaining
enforcing
executing
implementing
bringing off
carrying off
carrying through
launching
engineering
performing
administering
bringing about
organising
UK
organizing
US
perpetrating
making
fulfilling
completing
fixing
consummating
doing
causing
effectuating
bringing
administrating
finalising
UK
finalizing
US
pulling off
generating
initiating
managing
provoking
putting in place
creating
discharging
producing
succeeding in
arranging for
calling forth
finishing
giving rise to
occasioning
bringing to pass
concluding
originating
rendering
setting up
actuating
engendering
precipitating
starting
causing to happen
causing to occur
making happen
wreaking
running
kindling
begetting
breeding
bringing on
catalysing
UK
catalyzing
US
drawing on
inducing
invoking
prompting
spawning
working
yielding
actualizing
beginning
putting across
resulting in
translating into
turning out
turning the trick
undertaking
applying
arranging
succeeding
finishing off
employing
enabling
imposing
providing the means for
putting into action
putting through
putting into operation
putting into effect
putting into practice
following up
following out
going through with
following through
following through with
perfecting
bringing to fruition
making good on
living up to
getting done
fulfilling your potential
making the grade
sewing up
doing one proud
bearing out
gaining fulfillment
getting there
making it
nailing it
making good
scoring
wrapping up
satisfying
racking up
delivering on
clinching
prosecuting
affecting
exercising
negotiating
fostering
acting out
advancing
committing
triggering
eliciting
compassing
transacting
evoking
operating
compelling
enkindling
establishing
introducing
developing
promoting
working up
exerting
dealing with
taking care of
practising
UK
instigating
inciting
engaging in
bringing to bear
practicing
US
bringing into effect
bringing into play
pursuing
instituting
hatching
mustering
cultivating
motivating
leading to
using
inflicting
sparking off
setting off
contributing to
utilizing
US
stirring up
authorising
UK
being responsible for
acting
plying
engaging
taking care of business
exploiting
authorizing
US
harnessing
putting in force
handling
putting to use
utilising
UK
acting on
pulling
securing
actionizing
tackling
acting upon
following up on
making for
following
going through
inspiring
spurring
driving
stimulating
working on
inaugurating
opening
serving
exacting
transgressing
observing
drawing
actioning
carrying to completion
taking action on
starting in on
bringing forth
forcing
processing
upping and doing
giving
exhibiting
delivering the goods
legislating
declaring
passing
serving out
dealing out
bringing up
setting in motion
starting off
triggering off
putting in motion
cooking up
firing up
starting the ball rolling
whipping up
getting things rolling
staging
decreeing
drafting
meeting
hitting
swinging
presenting
cutting
hacking
formulating
forming
playing out
sanctioning
ratifying
acquitting oneself of
putting on
polishing off
putting over
doing the job
sailing through
doing the trick
coming through
making up
breaking in
breaking the ice
drawing up
approving
proclaiming
laying down
waging
earning one's wings
doing to a T
dictating
confirming
settling
assigning
putting out
wielding
working out
sorting out
buttoning up
thrashing out
carrying on
doing business
running with the ball
seeing to
buttoning down
hammering out
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to carry out a plan with a specific purpose in mind
designing
intending
aiming
devising
purposing
planning
tailoring
fashioning
making fitting
adjusting
adapting
proposing
purporting
conceiving
constructing
fitting
preparing
shaping
gearing
equipping
meaning
destining
orienting
organizing
US
organising
UK
readying
aspiring
striving
endeavoring
US
conspiring
scheming
arranging
focusing
focussing
plotting
calculating
seeking
angling
trying
premeditating
orchestrating
attempting
wanting
meditating
engineering
hoping
targeting
essaying
wishing
targetting
zeroing in on
looking
setting your sights on
endeavouring
UK
zooming in on
reckoning on
awaiting
expecting
taking care
anticipating
attending
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods or by trickery
manipulating
tricking
cheating
conning
deceiving
duping
finagling
fooling
hoodwinking
misleading
swindling
bamboozling
beguiling
defrauding
deluding
hoaxing
jockeying
swaying
bilking
entrapping
impressing
outmaneuvering
US
outmanoeuvring
UK
scamming
wangling
biasing
US
biassing
UK
bluffing
snookering
stiffing
suckering
trapping
gaslighting
double-crossing
ripping off
stringing along
doing a number on
playing games
pulling strings
pulling wires
setting up
stage-managing
sucking in
taking for a ride
leading up the garden path
pulling a fast one on
twisting around your little finger
Verb
▲
Present participle for to indulge in fantasies about something desired
dreaming
fantasising
UK
fantasizing
US
daydreaming
contemplating
imagining
envisioning
visualising
UK
visualizing
US
musing
romanticising
UK
romanticizing
US
fancying
craving
hankering
idealising
UK
idealizing
US
longing
lusting
pining
woolgathering
picturing
aiming for
aspiring to
building castles in air
conceiving of
conjuring up pictures
desiring to
hankering after
hoping for
hungering for
living in a dream world
longing for
seeking to
thirsting after
thirsting for
wishing for
wishing to
yearning for
having as one's aim
having as one's goal
ideating
setting one's heart on
setting your sights on
sighing
envisaging
conceiving
thinking
figuring
projecting
perceiving
inventing
hallucinating
romancing
pretending
conceiting
play-acting
seeing
featuring
fantasying
imaging
visioning
mooning
conjuring up
tripping out
indulging in fantasy
seeing visions
indulging in fancy
building castles in the air
indulging in wool-gathering
building castles in Spain
giving free rein to the imagination
conceptualizing
US
depicting
conceptualising
UK
thinking of
fantasizing about
dreaming up
dreaming about
forming a picture of
forming a mental picture of
seeing in one's mind
seeing in your mind's eye
thinking up
making up
planning
stargazing
staring into space
viewing
evoking
having your head in the clouds
divining
conjuring up a picture of
dreaming of
creating in your mind
calling to mind
bringing to mind
conjuring up an image of
conjuring up a mental picture of
concocting
framing
creating
scheming
cooking up
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a minimal level
getting by
coping
managing
existing
getting along
getting on
making do
subsisting
surviving
making ends meet
making out
doing
faring
muddling along
muddling through
scraping by
shifting
flourishing
making shift
prospering
scraping along
scraping through
scrimping
succeeding
thriving
fending
doing well enough
scraping a living
barely have enough to live oning
scarcely have enough to live oning
keeping the wolf from the door
Verb
▲
Present participle for attempt to get
angling for
aiming for
casting about for
conniving
conspiring
fishing for
hinting
hunting
inviting
looking for
maneuvering
US
manoeuvring
UK
planning
plotting
scheming
seeking
soliciting
striving
trying for
trying to get
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
affecting
counterfeiting
faking
feigning
pretending
shamming
simulating
acting
assuming
bluffing
dissembling
fabricating
professing
putting on
imitating
passing for
playacting
making like
playing at
aspiring to
giving the appearance of
making a show of
doing a bit
making a pretence of
making out like
going through the motions of
laying it on thick
putting up a front
Verb
▲
Present participle for to ascertain through analysis or investigation
determining
ascertaining
discerning
discovering
establishing
deducing
detecting
figuring out
finding out
identifying
learning
verifying
working out
fathoming
figuring
finding
perceiving
uncovering
adding up
conceiving
confirming
intuiting
noticing
observing
picking up
realising
UK
realizing
US
recognising
UK
recognizing
US
seeing
sensing
spotting
unearthing
catching on
coming upon
descrying
diagnosing
divining
getting
getting to know
having a hunch
reading
sizing up
coming to know
fathoming out
making out
Verb
▲
Present participle for to build or alter according to personal preferences or specifications
customising
UK
customizing
US
personalising
UK
personalizing
US
modifying
tailoring
adapting
altering
converting
fashioning
designing
tailor-making
custom-making
making to order
making specially
Adjective
▲
Working in conjunction with another to deceitfully achieve one's goals
conniving
cunning
devious
crafty
scheming
sly
wily
tricky
artful
guileful
deceitful
unscrupulous
calculating
underhand
designing
treacherous
duplicitous
foxy
unprincipled
Machiavellian
slick
slippery
subtle
disingenuous
manipulative
plotting
slim
colluding
collusive
conspiratorial
conspiring
caballing
Janus-faced
shrewd
sharp
dishonest
two-faced
cagey
politic
sneaky
untrustworthy
shady
discreet
cautious
considerate
careful
shifty
false
insidious
furtive
deceptive
underhanded
stealthy
sneaking
snide
astute
intriguing
iffy
opportunistic
shonky
fly-by-night
double-dealing
evasive
canny
unpredictable
unreliable
cynical
gingerly
chary
circumspect
wary
safe
premeditating
guarded
intelligent
perfidious
opportunist
amoral
unconscionable
immoral
unethical
cutthroat
expedient
dodgy
fugitive
elusive
uncertain
mutable
unsafe
unsteady
inconstant
insecure
unstable
hard to pin down
variable
changeable
tactful
sensitive
delicate
polite
prudent
clever
judicious
roguish
skillful
US
discerning
skilful
UK
understanding
thoughtful
adept
bent
fast
snidey
fraudulent
rogue
suspicious
crooked
strategic
conciliatory
diplomatic
deft
savvy
dexterous
US
gracious
dextrous
UK
arch
suave
treating with kid gloves
courteous
capable
bland
smooth
brainy
lying
slimy
unhonest
mendacious
dubious
dishonourable
UK
dishonorable
US
corrupt
disreputable
questionable
beguiling
cute
insincere
secret
cagy
smart
clandestine
cheating
suspect
ingenious
indirect
fishy
fly
surreptitious
undependable
precarious
streetwise
sharp-witted
knowing
secretive
scandalous
shaky
covert
unsavoury
UK
dangerous
dissembling
pawky
traitorous
unfair
unsavory
US
deceiving
undercover
two-timing
villainous
risky
carny
deep
wobbly
hush-hush
untruthful
misleading
knavish
private
keen
hazardous
illegal
underground
backstairs
perilous
stealth
seedy
privy
oblique
sneak
hidden
bad
black
not to be trusted
unfaithful
dicey
inglorious
chancy
vulpine
hairy
double-faced
rocky
murky
street-smart
street smart
rickety
behind-the-scenes
hugger-mugger
parlous
sub-rosa
hole-and-corner
hypocritical
counterfeit
wise
evil
wicked
faithless
base
under the table
perceptive
delusive
under wraps
sinful
resourceful
dirty
defrauding
rascally
sketchy
skulking
discriminating
improper
unworthy
slinking
truthless
irresponsible
unsettled
unsure
sagacious
sinister
unlawful
hollow-hearted
cloaked
dark
exploitative
false-hearted
adroit
heady
double-crossing
doubtful
astucious
concealed
tottering
vile
vicious
quick-witted
heads-up
unhealthy
fair-weather
not dependable
touch and go
not to be depended on
disgraceful
unctuous
bluffing
recreant
acute
fake
unjust
reprobate
phoney
UK
swindling
pretended
phony
US
degenerate
perspicacious
sensible
hoodwinking
untrue
disloyal
shameless
ignoble
criminal
casuistic
unsound
wrong
inventive
imaginative
infamous
unprofessional
mean
Punic
fiendish
wobbling
enigmatic
ruthless
greasy
trustless
corrupted
problematic
dastardly
shameful
quick
conscienceless
depraved
teetering
sapient
contemptible
unconscientious
serpentine
iniquitous
hardheaded
menacing
low-down
self-seeking
dirty-dealing
despicable
unsecured
funny
argute
suss
nefarious
unrighteous
tottery
clear-sighted
clear-eyed
media-savvy
hard-boiled
movable
lubricious
long-headed
of dubious character
under-the-table
licentious
dissolute
on the ball
malicious
potentially illegal
hanging by a thread
moving
on the QT
ticklish
mobile
wiggly
on thin ice
alarming
crazy like a fox
on the quiet
not fixed
not secure
shadowy
impish
captious
illusory
mischievous
mysterious
wry
witted
delusory
bogus
sham
deviant
trick
controlling
cowboy
experienced
complicitous
untrusty
fickle
irregular
fallacious
sidelong
not trustworthy
fink
tactical
plausible
rascal
off
mock
spurious
bum
seeming
catchy
imposturous
quiet
catlike
catty
silent
feline
noiseless
masked
not to be relied upon
penetrating
shrouded
salty
ornery
hostile
illicit
snaky
sideways
veiled
disguised
whip-smart
sussed
creepy
worldly-wise
sly like a fox
rotten
unseemly
as sharp as a tack
able
frugal
having fancy footwork
with it
watchful
nimble-witted
hep
negligent
back-alley
cloak-and-dagger
flimflam
scam
behind someone's back
jeopardous
cloak and dagger
hole and corner
quivering
wabbling
wabbly
tricksy
gnarly
ominous
not stable
crazy like fox
wrongful
artificial
difficult
unbalanced
feigned
not cricket
shaking
trembly
trembling
quaking
shuddery
tremulous
quavery
shuddering
complicit
craft
venal
mercenary
backhanded
degrading
atremble
aquiver
discreditable
notorious
mealy
mealymouthed
petty
double
degraded
wrongdoing
jive
Pecksniffian
selfish
arrant
ignominious
insightful
lip
threatening
unfastened
doddery
louche
cowardly
hollow
yellow
pretend
difficult to track down
difficult to find
always on the move
difficult to catch
shocking
low
sage
funny-looking
queer-looking
dishonest-looking
guilty-looking
mysterious-looking
strange-looking
bockety
alert
vulnerable
pretentious
overdone
observant
debauched
exaggerated
giddy
dizzy
weak
dissimulating
exposed
defenceless
UK
life-threatening
high-risk
reprehensible
cruel
brutal
merciless
profound
pseud
serious
harmful
toxic
grievous
jeopardizing
US
threatened
injurious
venturesome
destructive
malignant
grave
outrageous
opprobrious
disorderly
ambidextrous
debased
inhumane
callous
malevolent
hateful
heinous
inhuman
perverted
accurate
equivocating
unprotected
of bad reputation
seamy
shy
sleazy
unrespectable
unwholesome
shoddy
probing
farsighted
phoney-baloney
shark
calculated
inside
touch-and-go
monstrous
pitiless
unfeeling
rancorous
scoundrelly
self-indulgent
unkind
vitiated
disparaging
delinquent
forbidding
errant
hard-hearted
libertine
mean-spirited
bloodthirsty
heartless
wrathful
demonic
scrofulous
unpleasant
black-hearted
evil-minded
vengeful
felonious
contemptuous
grisly
nasty
pernicious
cold-blooded
savage
tyrannical
barbarous
squalid
incorrigible
scornful
morally wrong
maleficent
objectionable
decadent
brutish
defiled
despiteful
ungodly
bestial
sadistic
harsh
virulent
lawless
profligate
inexorable
wanton
vindictive
gruesome
disdainful
spiteful
ambiguous
prevaricating
equivocal
put-on
explosive
erratic
fearsome
on a limb
touchy
defenseless
US
open to attack
jeopardising
UK
phony-baloney
left-handed
not candid
not frank
pitiable
beggarly
sorry
cheap
abject
scurvy
sordid
lowly
lewd
derogatory
libidinous
lacking sincerity
vague
with tongue in cheek
far-seeing
indeterminate
cryptic
unclear
shuffling
indefinite
inexplicit
inexact
imprecise
indistinct
wised up
in the know
on the inside
on top of
up on
in low esteem
in the doghouse
no good
in bad
roundabout
perplexing
obscure
gnomic
puzzling
built on sand
on a slippery slope
hanging in the balance
out on a limb
circumlocutory
sophistical
circuitous
intangible
periphrastic
Delphic
casuistical
stonewalling
elusory
noncommittal
malfeasant
backbiting
non-committal
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Causing to function
operating
directing
accomplishing
administering
conducting
determining
driving
executing
finishing
fulfilling
guiding
maintaining
managing
manipulating
moving
ordering
performing
practising
UK
practicing
US
regulating
revolving
serving
spinning
supervising
sustaining
transacting
turning
using
wielding
at work
inspecting
piloting
leading
steering
husbanding
admonishing
governing
handling
organizing
US
superintending
controlling
advising
overseeing
organising
UK
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Noun
▲
The action of building something, typically a large structure
construction
building
assembly
creation
development
erection
fabrication
making
composition
establishment
manufacture
origination
production
raising
structure
erecting
fabricating
fashioning
formation
arrangement
casting
constitution
invention
architecture
conception
elevation
figuration
format
forming
foundation
putting up
setting up
forging
modelling
UK
formulation
shaping
devising
modeling
US
putting together
manufacturing
producing
creating
assemblage
moulding
UK
mass production
design
product
authoring
molding
US
fancying
imagination
planning
causation
occasioning
performing
constituting
designing
introduction
innovation
discovery
pioneering
contrivance
masterminding
inception
institution
finding
initiation
inauguration
concoction
generation
engineering
produce
fitting together
founding
genesis
organization
US
preparation
joining
installation
start
connection
laying down
coinage
mass-production
induction
piecing together
organisation
UK
composing
preparing
assembling
engendering
brainchild
connecting
coupling
compilation
provision
constructing
junction
attachment
joint
launch
hatching
jointure
join
juncture
nascency
set-up
drawing up
getting going
linking
thinking up
labor
US
handiwork
realization
US
output
labour
UK
realisation
UK
build
setting-up
architectonics
completion
doing
tooling
finishing
accomplishment
planting
construct
industry
incorporation
spawning
causing
nativity
framing
writing
interpretation
rendering
prefabrication
triggering
kindling
prompting
inspiration
emergence
appearance
processing
making up
yielding
direction
original idea
reproduction
bearing
building design
incipience
nascence
incipiency
building up
welding
collection
adjustment
turning out
conglomeration
breakthrough
editing
arranging
concocting
outcomes
by-products
things
results
offshoots
find
instigation
advance
complex
gestation
evolution
incubation
leap
headway
widening
thickening
unravelling
UK
advancement
wrinkle
thinking-up
putting in order
making ready
getting ready
site
device
discovering
conclusion
release
unraveling
US
step forward
launching
opus
novelty
baby
original
lucky strike
leap forward
quantum leap
institute
originating
establishing
starting
enactment
instituting
initiating
endowment
flotation
settlement
fastening
bringing about
union
combination
link
merging
combining
merger
unification
consolidation
tie
port
portal
mapping
conjunction
fixture
conjointment
seam
network
partnerhip
upshot
commodity
result
thing
offshoot
issue
yield
outcome
fruit
by-product
more ❯
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