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
Was she, after the rebuffs, after the scornful and contumelious slight which M. de Vlaye had put upon her, willing still to seek him, willing still to be in his power?
From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Stanley J. Weyman
I returned it to its maker, with whom I had so contumelious a passage that the street outside was crowded from wall to wall with gossips looking on and listening.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
