contumaciously

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adv stubbornly

adverb. stubbornly

c.1600, from Latin contumaci-, stem of contumax "haughty, insolent, obstinate" (see contumely) + -ous.

Who snubs him so contumaciously, when he's a little chap in jackets and they young ladies already out?

The Archbishop formally excommunicated her as a first step, on her contumaciously refusing to surrender her rights to a usurper.

"It has answered pretty well up till now," said Martini contumaciously.

She represented the vanities; she was vanity itself; and now he was recklessly, contumaciously, glad of it.

Having so declared he had contumaciously stalked out of the room, and had banged the door after him,—very contumaciously indeed.