contumacious
adjective
stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
contumaciously
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a word derived from
contumacious.
Example Sentences
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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
"I am not contumaciously glued to any particular number," he says.
From Time Magazine Archive
From then on, the two Republicans quarreled frequently and contumaciously.
From Time Magazine Archive
Again a mystic sisterhood would contumaciously assert itself, as she met the sanctified frown of some matron, who, according to the rumour of all tongues, had kept cold snow within her bosom throughout life.
From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
