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

They were always visited, to be sure, by the pack, at some unexpected and indeterminable moment, but treated always with a contumelious scorn which was doubtless all that such clumsy tactics merited.

From Kings in Exile by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

Hence the danger of contumelious reprimands given by superiors.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome