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contumely

[kon-too-muh-lee, -tyoo-, kuhn-too-muh-lee, -tyoo-, kon-tuhm-lee, -tyoom, -chuhm] / ˈkɒn tʊ mə li, -tjʊ-, kənˈtu mə li, -ˈtju-, ˈkɒn təm li, -tjum, -tʃəm /


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

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2018

The choice brought more contumely from fans, who had never heard of him, or feared another Andrea Bargnani, a fragile product of European ball.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 3, 2016

The white-haired “out” socialist delivered, heaping contumely on the billionaires and hedge fund managers in a Brooklyn baritone accent that, if you shut your eyes, sounded like Larry David.

From Newsweek ● Apr. 8, 2015

That contumely registered exactly 0% with the movie’s core constituency: the ladies.

From Time ● Nov. 20, 2011

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

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Gwenwyn will forget the contumelies of Raymond, and raise his daughter to high honour among the daughters of the Cymry.

From The Betrothed by Sir Walter Scott

Yet such a war, under such circumstances, was denounced as unnecessary and unjust, though for no better reason than because greater contumelies had been endured at the hands of France.

From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by William Henry Seward

—Others there are, Whom envy to the state draws and pulls on, For contumelies received; and such are sure ones.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Sir Walter Scott

But they whom serious danger could not deter from renewing and indefinitely repeating such attempts at all hazards, were little likely to be appalled by these contumelies of speech.

From An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by John Foster

Clergy, nobility, court, magistracy, all abuses, all falsehoods, all contumelies, every injustice of a monarchy, are personified, in spite of Louis XVI., in the king.

From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde


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