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
He himself complains that contumelious epithets were levelled at the doctrine and its author.
From Fathers of Biology by Charles McRae
It is the most contumelious, the most astounding attack which has ever been made upon me.
From No Surrender by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
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