contumelious

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adj insolent

adjective. exhibiting unkind behavior or words

adjective. libelous, slanderous

adjective. offensive, uncomplimentary

late 15c., from Old French contumelieus, from Latin contumeliosus "reproachful, insolently abusive," from contumelia (see contumely).

If I had been bred in the east, I should be tempted to say it was a contumelious responsibility.

I weep and cry out, I have been a most contumelious offender.

She turned the combs and brushes over with a contumelious hand.

Who now hath plumbed the depths of a contumelious paronomasia?

Although I curled a contumelious lip, I smarted under the indignity.

It would have liked him well to bring this contumelious varlet to his knees.

Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious.

The wrong was committed hastily, and with contumelious levity.

It was a day without a breath of wind, such as alternate in the archipelago with days of contumelious breezes.

He who with delight hears idle discourse or contumelious words, makes his ear a gate of death to himself.