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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



... earth's chosen heroes,—they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme ...
— The Vision of Sir Launfal - And Other Poems • James Russell Lowell


Words linked to "Contumelious" :   disrespectful, contumely


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