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contumely

[kon-too-muh-lee, -tyoo-, kuhn-too-muh-lee, -tyoo-, kon-tuhm-lee, -tyoom, -chuhm] / ˈkɒn tʊ mə li, -tjʊ-, kənˈtu mə li, -ˈtju-, ˈkɒn təm li, -tjum, -tʃəm /


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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 pedlers find satisfaction for all contumelies in making good bargains out of their customers.

From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Yet such a war, under such circumstances, was denounced as unnecessary and unjust, though for no better reason than because greater contumelies had been endured at the hands of France.

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

So faithfully preserves thou each small favor, And hast no memory for contumelies?

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke

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


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