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
I have held that hard luck, frowning fate, or contumelious circumstances have conspired to hold these natural-born stars down and prevent their names from being chiseled on the tablet of fame.
From Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager by Standish, Burt L.
On the other hand, to refuse a requisition made by the Throne was counted contumelious and liable to punishment.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
Vocabulary lists containing contumelious
