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

It would not do for Yankelé to circulate contumelious reports of them among his kin.

From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel

If I had been bred in the east, I should be tempted to say it was a contumelious responsibility.

From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Bird, Frederic Mayer