contumely

Example Sentences

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There’s a big difference between despised love and disprized love, and between a proud man’s contumely and a poor man’s contumely.

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Each day, Bull poured torrents of contumely on his morning paper.

From Literature

Christie managed to be almost cuddly while dispatching this contumely.

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He prints plenty of contumely — mostly snobbish disapproval from Eastern visitors — about his hometown.

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Rebuke is actually too frivolous a word for the contumely Mr. Wolfe looses in his direction.

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