contumelious
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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
Her contumelious treatment of him at Portsmouth rankled; but he had satisfied himself that it was all his fault.
From Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Nicholson, Meredith
Dear Editor: Being a passionate admirer of Dr. Breuer and his writings, I cannot permit the contumelious, unfounded aggression of one George K. Addison to go on unconfuted.
From Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various
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