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

On the other hand, to refuse a requisition made by the Throne was counted contumelious and liable to punishment.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

Dear Editor: Being a passionate admirer of Dr. Breuer and his writings, I cannot permit the contumelious, unfounded aggression of one George K. Addison to go on unconfuted.

From Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various