contumely

Christie managed to be almost cuddly while dispatching this contumely.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2019

The choice brought more contumely from fans, who had never heard of him, or feared another Andrea Bargnani, a fragile product of European ball.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 3, 2016

The white-haired “out” socialist delivered, heaping contumely on the billionaires and hedge fund managers in a Brooklyn baritone accent that, if you shut your eyes, sounded like Larry David.

From Newsweek ● Apr. 8, 2015

But neither of these films can compete in contumely with the scorn heaped on Movie 43 by the Chicago Sun-Times’ Richard Roeper.

From Time ● Jan. 27, 2013

Each day, Bull poured torrents of contumely on his morning paper.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

The love of injuries, contumelies, and humiliations, made him find in them his greatest joy.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler

Notorious are the contumelies put upon the cases of grievance presented from the people in the House of Commons.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by George Jacob Holyoake

Wherefore take him for thy patron: 10 and patiently suffer the contumelies which the infidels utter against thee; and depart from them with a decent departure.

From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by George Sale

One of the same era or period; a contemporary. condign   Deserved; adequate. contemned   Viewed with contempt; despised. contumelies   Rudeness or contempt arising from arrogance.

From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by William Henry Seward

But they whom serious danger could not deter from renewing and indefinitely repeating such attempts at all hazards, were little likely to be appalled by these contumelies of speech.

From An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by John Foster