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

"I am not contumaciously glued to any particular number," he says.

From Time Magazine Archive

From then on, the two Republicans quarreled frequently and contumaciously.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Ayala's Angel by Trollope, Anthony