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Why should it be so harsh and contumaciously insistent on its own reality?

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2021

The descriptions are detailed, and I think of Hunter S. Thompson as I write them, effulgently, contumaciously, a gringo in God’s villages.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2016

From then on, the two Republicans quarreled frequently and contumaciously.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I am not contumaciously glued to any particular number," he says.

From Time Magazine Archive

“And if I don’t—if contumaciously I refuse?” said Hugh.

From In the Mist of the Mountains by Macfarlane, J.