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The Archbishop formally excommunicated her as a first step, on her contumaciously refusing to surrender her rights to a usurper.

She represented the vanities; she was vanity itself; and now he was recklessly, contumaciously, glad of it.

Having so declared he had contumaciously stalked out of the room, and had banged the door after him,—very contumaciously indeed.

A fourth man had, thereupon, put his hat on his head, and had declared contumaciously that the "assertion was not true."

Who snubs him so contumaciously, when he's a little chap in jackets and they young ladies already out?

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to contumaciously, such as: mulishly, obdurately, bullheadedly, determinedly, doggedly, and firmly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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