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contumaciously
adverb as in obstinately
Strong matches
Weak matches
- bullheadedly
- determinedly
- doggedly
- firmly
- fixedly
- headstrongly
- indomitably
- inflexibly
- intractably
- opinionatedly
- persistently
- pertinaciously
- pigheadedly
- recalcitrantly
- resistantly
- resolutely
- resolvedly
- staunchly
- steadfastly
- stolidly
- tenaciously
- unamenably
- unflinchingly
- unimpressibly
- unreasonably
- unreasoningly
- unrelentingly
- unwaveringly
- unyieldingly
- willfully
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Example Sentences
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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