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

Yes, that's a fitting name, I guess, For as stout a soul as Publius Cornelius; And now, probably, there's no man will not dub you "noblest Roman," Though you once had many a foeman contumelious.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 3, 1890. by Various

He who with delight hears idle discourse or contumelious words, makes his ear a gate of death to himself.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham