Synonyms for contumelious
| 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
- 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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