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
The braves strode by her in sullen silence, eloquently impressing their contumelious hauteur.
From Trail Tales by James David Gillilan
It was a day without a breath of wind, such as alternate in the archipelago with days of contumelious breezes.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Vocabulary lists containing contumelious
