Difference between High Jinks and Contrivances

HIGH JINKS vs CONTRIVANCES: NOUN

Plural form of contrivance.
A device that is very useful for a particular job
Any improvised arrangement for temporary use
The act of devising something
An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
An artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
The faculty of contriving; inventive skill

(noun plural) Playful, often noisy and rowdy activity, usually involving mischievous pranks.

Bawdiness, Horseplay, Revelry, Merriment, Frivolity, Ribaldry, Naughtiness, Buffoonery, Slapstick, Debauchery, Silliness, Hilarity, Tomfoolery, Jinks, Hijinks

Pratfalls, Improbabilities, Conceits, Melodramatics, Gismos, Devisal, Lash up, Appliance, Convenience, Widget, Gadget, Dodge, Gizmo, Contraption, Stratagem

Bawdiness, Horseplay, Revelry, Merriment, Frivolity, Ribaldry, Naughtiness, Buffoonery, Slapstick, Debauchery, Silliness, Hilarity, Tomfoolery, Jinks, Hijinks

Artifice, Slapstick, Digressions, Didacticism, Silliness, Triteness, Pratfalls, Gismos, Devisal, Appliance, Convenience, Widget, Gadget, Gizmo, Stratagem

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Some episodes have very ethnically Japanese plots, but the wacky adolescent high jinks and emotions have a universal appeal.
Wakko, Yakko and Dot are back to their old high jinks, which now include battling Russian.
Grow up together, several brothers and sisters, always so high jinks, what is this.".
Accessible place to go of events approach bombay high jinks at the unassuming jaya.
Sal, Joe, Q and Murr return for their eighth season of hysterical high jinks.
We'll be waiting and laughing at the ensuing high-jinks.
McIlroy and his friends took care that their high-tech high jinks did not put other people's programs and data at risk.
Opponents have denounced Mr. Caputos high jinks as crass.
All Pro footballer arrested in high speed high jinks.

And customs, and contrivances of life, with all we see and know.
These little contrivances can be effected, says the honest Grimoire, without exciting the notice of your opponent.
That opportunities for companies and wealthy individuals to avoid paying their fair share of tax through artificial contrivances are eliminated.
But how many of those gaunt hopefuls in the line can afford the contrivances, you figure?
It only went to russia via the contrivances of army intelligence by way of russian spies.
Arrested where team westen; story contrivances had been a huge purse and a beat.
The trouble is mainly with some of the plot contrivances for me.
Still other schemes and contrivances were proposed and patented.
King of Boulder and celebrated ultra runner, Anton helped roadies triumph over their banal contrivances.
With contrivances and coincidences at every turn, the train goes way off track.