contumely
noun
insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.
contumelious
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a word derived from
contumely.
Example Sentences
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Mr Grueber said that while the behaviour of the women hadn't disrupted the hearing, it was "inappropriate, discourteous and disrespectful, and at worst contumelious and contemptuous".
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2024
We behave in contumelious disregard of most elements of law when push comes to shove.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2013
Hardly a day passed without a contumelious attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
The echoing bridge you here may see, The pouring lynn, the waving tree, The eager angler fresh from town— Above, the contumelious clown.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson
If I had been bred in the east, I should be tempted to say it was a contumelious responsibility.
From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Frederic Mayer Bird
