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You know how you feel at the iron gripe of ruthless oppression: you know how you bear the galling sneer of contumelious greatness.
THE LETTERS OF ROBERT BURNSROBERT BURNSThither Mrs. Lathom's housewife eyes were led, and she drew it aside with a contumelious finger.
THORLEY WEIRE. F. (EDWARD FREDERIC) BENSONA thirst for vengeance, after all they had endured at the hands of the contumelious foe, carried them away.
BOY WOODBURNALFRED OLLIVANTThou art very contumelious, and deservest to be rolled in the kennel.
JACOB FAITHFULCAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYATUsage the most contumelious she had hitherto borne with silent indignation.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.I., PART E.DAVID HUMEI am very much offended at his scandalizing words and contumelious obloquy.
GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL, COMPLETE.FRANCOIS RABELAISThis is one reason why the empty critic is usually contumelious and flippant, the competent one as generally equitable and humane.
COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETYROBERT SOUTHEYI weep and cry out, I have been a most contumelious offender.
THE WORKS OF JOHN MARSTONJOHN MARSTONShe turned the combs and brushes over with a contumelious hand.
JOAN OF THE SWORD HANDS(AMUEL) R(UTHERFORD) CROCKETTWho now hath plumbed the depths of a contumelious paronomasia?
WILDERNESS OF SPRINGEDGAR PANGBORNWORDS RELATED TO CONTUMELIOUS
- audacious
- bold
- cavalier
- cheeky
- cold-shoulder
- condescending
- contumelious
- cool
- derisive
- derisory
- disdainful
- disrespectful
- dog it
- hard
- hard-nosed
- haughty
- high-and-mighty
- high-hat
- insulting
- on high horse
- opprobrious
- sardonic
- scornful
- sneering
- snippy
- snobbish
- snooty
- snotty
- supercilious
- temperamental
- uppity
- upstage
- belittling
- calumnious
- censorious
- contumelious
- critical
- damaging
- defamatory
- degrading
- demeaning
- deprecatory
- depreciative
- despiteful
- detracting
- disdainful
- dishonoring
- disparaging
- fault-finding
- humiliating
- injurious
- malevolent
- malicious
- maligning
- minimizing
- opprobrious
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- scornful
- slanderous
- slighting
- spiteful
- unfavorable
- unflattering
- vilifying
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.