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
The defamer has some respect for his enemy, for he fears to face him and resorts to undermining, but the contumelious sinner despises his enemy and shows it by insulting him to his face.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan
Yes, that's a fitting name, I guess, For as stout a soul as Publius Cornelius; And now, probably, there's no man will not dub you "noblest Roman," Though you once had many a foeman contumelious.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 3, 1890. by Various
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