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
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
A fourth man had, thereupon, put his hat on his head, and had declared contumaciously that the "assertion was not true."
From Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope
