contumelious
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Mr Grueber said that while the behaviour of the women hadn't disrupted the hearing, it was "inappropriate, discourteous and disrespectful, and at worst contumelious and contemptuous".
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2024
We behave in contumelious disregard of most elements of law when push comes to shove.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2013
Hardly a day passed without a contumelious attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were always visited, to be sure, by the pack, at some unexpected and indeterminable moment, but treated always with a contumelious scorn which was doubtless all that such clumsy tactics merited.
From Kings in Exile by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
It was a day without a breath of wind, such as alternate in the archipelago with days of contumelious breezes.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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