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

Had he, though blindly contumelious, brought Rheum to kind eyes, a sting to human thought, Convulsion to a mouth of many years?

From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John

He had been in the service of the Lord Fleming, the governor, but on account of contumelious usage had quitted it, and had been the contriver of the scheme.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by Galt, John