contumelious
- 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
It was the old spite bursting forth, sharpened by Canning’s behaviour to him in forming his Administration, which, if it was not contumelious, certainly was not courteous.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Reeve, Henry
Yes, that's a fitting name, I guess, For as stout a soul as Publius Cornelius; And now, probably, there's no man will not dub you "noblest Roman," Though you once had many a foeman contumelious.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 3, 1890. by Various
