confect
verb[T]
oftendisapprovinguk/kənˈfekt/us/kənˈfekt/tocreatesomething,especiallyin a way thatseemsartificialorfalse:
As anartistshe is notinterestedin confectinghappyendings.
Theyclaimthecontroversyhas been confected from asimpletypographicalerror.
- She is confecting aproblemthat doesn'texist.
- Mysuspicionis that thejournalistswho are confectingoutrageabout this don't reallycareat all.
- Hestruggledto confect anexcusefor theactionsof his men.
- ThewriterturnsthetraditionalCinderellanarrativeonitshead, confecting astoryin which thewickedstepmothertakesover and thebadguyswintheday.
Creating and producing
- anti-creative
- artefact
- attribute
- attributesomethingtosomeone
- barrenness
- generate
- knock
- knock off (something)
- knocksomeoneout
- knocksomethingtogether/up
- maker culture
- mint
- runsomethingup
- rushsomethingout
- sand-cast
- scaresomethingup
- scrapbooking
- spin
- throw
- yield