List of antonyms from "control" to antonyms from "conventionally"


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Definition of the day : « contumely »

  • noun insult
Example sentences :
  • For some time, he did not make a single convert, and gained nothing but contumely and abuse.
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
  • Poverty, contumely, indignities of all sorts, met him wherever he turned.
  • Extract from : « Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia » by Various
  • No more should the gallant beast he had bred be seized with contumely in the market-place.
  • Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman
  • We shall not be cast aside in contumely and unblest after all we have suffered.
  • Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Where is an equal army of men to be found to invite the contumely of their own sex?
  • Extract from : « Despair's Last Journey » by David Christie Murray
  • Besides, what do you mean, by words of contumely from my lips?
  • Extract from : « Tancred » by Benjamin Disraeli
  • The language of contumely was exhausted in vain efforts to describe his baseness.
  • Extract from : « John Quincy Adams » by John. T. Morse
  • Garrison appealed to the master's heirs for redress, but was repelled with contumely.
  • Extract from : « The Negro and the Nation » by George S. Merriam
  • Ah Chun called for the manager and was treated with contumely.
  • Extract from : « The House of Pride » by Jack London
  • His requests and his warnings were alike treated with contumely.
  • Extract from : « The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) » by John Fiske.