contumelious
Example Sentences
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Mr Grueber said that while the behaviour of the women hadn't disrupted the hearing, it was "inappropriate, discourteous and disrespectful, and at worst contumelious and contemptuous".
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2024
We behave in contumelious disregard of most elements of law when push comes to shove.”
From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2013
Hardly a day passed without a contumelious attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet oft his courtesies are smoother wrongs; Pride brandishes the favours He confers, And contumelious his humanity: What then his vengeance?
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward
Bat, contumelious now no longer, dashed wildly away.
From The Ape, the Idiot & Other People by Morrow, W. C.
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