contumaciously
Example Sentences
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Why should it be so harsh and contumaciously insistent on its own reality?
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2021
The descriptions are detailed, and I think of Hunter S. Thompson as I write them, effulgently, contumaciously, a gringo in God’s villages.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2016
"I am not contumaciously glued to any particular number," he says.
From Time Magazine Archive
From then on, the two Republicans quarreled frequently and contumaciously.
From Time Magazine Archive
Having so declared he had contumaciously stalked out of the room, and had banged the door after him,—very contumaciously indeed.
From Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope
