contumaciously
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Why should it be so harsh and contumaciously insistent on its own reality?
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2021
The descriptions are detailed, and I think of Hunter S. Thompson as I write them, effulgently, contumaciously, a gringo in God’s villages.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2016
From then on, the two Republicans quarreled frequently and contumaciously.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I am not contumaciously glued to any particular number," he says.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is mortifying to fall at once from the pinnacle of neglect; to forego the idea of having been ill-used and contumaciously treated by an old friend.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
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