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
Mr. Hastings thereon fell into a very intemperate heat, obstinately refused to be present at the examination, attempted to dissolve the Council, and contumaciously retired from it.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
