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contumeliously

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con·tu·me·ly  (knt-m-l, -ty-, -tm-l)
n. pl. con·tu·me·lies
1. Rudeness or contempt arising from arrogance; insolence.
2. An insolent or arrogant remark or act.
[Middle English contumelie, from Old French, from Latin contumlia; akin to contumx, insolent.]
contu·meli·ous (knt-ml-s) adj.
contu·meli·ous·ly adv.
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Adv.1.contumeliously - without respect; in a disdainful manner; "she spoke of him contemptuously"
contemptuously, scornfully, disdainfully


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I regret to add, that he wrote, also, 'The Buzzard's Feast,' in which a carrion diet is contumeliously disparaged.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Antoninus had not taken this care, but had contumeliously killed a brother of that centurion, whom also he daily threatened, yet retained in his bodyguard; which, as it turned out, was a rash thing to do, and proved the emperor's ruin.
The Prince by Machiavelli, Nicolo View in context
Jos, who would no more have it supposed that his father, Jos Sedley's father, of the Board of Revenue, was a wine merchant asking for orders, than that he was Jack Ketch, refused the bills with scorn, wrote back contumeliously to the old gentleman, bidding him to mind his own affairs; and the protested paper coming back, Sedley and Co.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
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