contumeliously
- a word derived from contumely.
Example Sentences
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In great wrath he swore to take vengeance on the man who had dared to tear up his complaint so contumeliously.
From Legends of the Rhine by Ruland, Wilhelm
When you were with him you spake contumeliously of me before him, saying of me the worst you could, and affirming that I did not dare enter the lands of Abenalfange for fear of you.
From Chronicle of the Cid by Southey, Robert
One might believe that Lucullus thought his money really captive and barbarian, so wantonly and contumeliously did he treat it.
From The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls by White, John S. (John Stuart)
Arulenus Rusticus was a Stoic; on which account he was contumeliously called by M. Regulus "the ape of the Stoics, marked with the Vitellian scar."
From The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Tacitus, Cornelius
Some undergraduates were making a disturbance, and the Junior Censor "made his appearance in person upon the scene of riot," and "was contumeliously handled."
From The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson
