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 Callan, Charles Jerome

Yet oft his courtesies are smoother wrongs; Pride brandishes the favours He confers, And contumelious his humanity: What then his vengeance?

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward