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Grammar : Adj
Spell : kon-too-muh-lee, -tyoo-; kuhn-too-muh-lee, -tyoo-; kon-tuhm-lee, -tyoom, -chuhm
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒn tʊ mə li, -tyʊ-; kənˈtu mə li, -ˈtyu-; ˈkɒn təm li, -tyum, -tʃəm

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Définition of contumelious

Origin :
  • late 15c., from Old French contumelieus, from Latin contumeliosus "reproachful, insolently abusive," from contumelia (see contumely).
  • adj insolent
Example sentences :
  • If I had been bred in the east, I should be tempted to say it was a contumelious responsibility.
  • Extract from : « A Pessimist » by Robert Timsol
  • I weep and cry out, I have been a most contumelious offender.
  • Extract from : « The Works of John Marston » by John Marston
  • She turned the combs and brushes over with a contumelious hand.
  • Extract from : « Joan of the Sword Hand » by S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett
  • Who now hath plumbed the depths of a contumelious paronomasia?
  • Extract from : « Wilderness of Spring » by Edgar Pangborn
  • Although I curled a contumelious lip, I smarted under the indignity.
  • Extract from : « Simon the Jester » by William J. Locke
  • It would have liked him well to bring this contumelious varlet to his knees.
  • Extract from : « Helmet of Navarre » by Bertha Runkle
  • Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious.
  • Extract from : « The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version » by Various
  • The wrong was committed hastily, and with contumelious levity.
  • Extract from : « The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4) » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • It was a day without a breath of wind, such as alternate in the archipelago with days of contumelious breezes.
  • Extract from : « In the South Seas » by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • He who with delight hears idle discourse or contumelious words, makes his ear a gate of death to himself.
  • Extract from : « The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church » by lfric
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