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Contumelious   Listen
adjective
Contumelious  adj.  
1.
Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful. "Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts." "Curving a contumelious lip."
2.
Shameful; disgraceful. (Obs.)





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"Contumelious" Quotes from Famous Books



... monarch at first made no declaration of his intentions. And what he chiefly valued, he formed a treaty with the Swiss cantons, who, enraged by some neglects put upon them by Lewis, accompanied with contumelious expressions, had quitted the alliance of France, and waited for an opportunity of revenging ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. - From Henry VII. to Mary • David Hume


Words linked to "Contumelious" :   disrespectful, contumely


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