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 gall bladder is for us the chief swimming-bladder and Montgolfier; and the filling of it costs us nothing but a contumelious word or two from some bystander.

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

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