contumelious
Example Sentences
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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
Because I wish it; Perhaps, because I would not bear the scorn, The petty taunts, the contumelious looks, That ever greet the cuckold husband.
From The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts by Smith, James Edgar
It is the most contumelious, the most astounding attack which has ever been made upon me.
From No Surrender by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
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