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Contumelious

Contumelious Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Contumelious? [adj] arrogantly insolent Synonyms \| Synonyms for Contumelious: disrespectful Related Terms \| Find terms related to Contumelious: abusive \| arrogant \| atrocious \| audacious \| back-biting \| backhand \| backhanded \| belittling \| bitchy \| blasphemous \| bold \| brazen \| bumptious \| calumniatory \| calumnious \| catty \| cavalier \| censorious \| clannish \| cliquish \| cold \| comminatory \| contemptuous \| cool \| critical \| cursing \| damnatory \| defamatory \| degrading \| denunciatory \| deprecatory \| depreciative \| depreciatory \| derisive \| derisory \| derogative \| derogatory \| detractory \| dirty \| disdainful \| dismissive \| disparaging \| dysphemistic \| epithetic \| exclusive \| excommunicative \| excommunicatory \| execratory \| familiar \| forward \| foul \| fulminatory \| haughty \| hubristic \| humiliating \| impertinent \| imprecatory \| impudent \| insolent \| insulting \| invective \| left-handed \| libelous \| maledictory \| minimizing \| obscene \| obtrusive \| offensive \| opprobrious \| outrageous \| overpresumptuous \| overweening \| pejorative \| presuming \| presumptuous \| procacious \| profane \| pushy \| Rabelaisian \| railing \| raw \| ribald \| ridiculing \| risque \| saucy \| scandalous \| scatologic \| scolding \| scornful \| scurrile \| scurrilous \| severe \| slanderous \| slighting \| sneering \| sniffy \| snobbish \| snobby \| snooty \| snotty \| supercilious \| toploftical \| toplofty \| truculent \| unspeakable \| uppish \| uppity \| vile \| vilifying \| vituperative \| withering See Also \| Contumelious In Webster's Dictionary \Con`tume"lious\ (?or ?; 106), a. [L. contumeliosus.] 1. Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful. Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. --Shak. Curving a contumelious lip. --Tennyson. 2. Shameful; disgraceful. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. -- {Con`tume"liously}, adv. -- {Con`tume"liousness}, n.

Contumelious Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Contumelious?

[adj] arrogantly insolent

Synonyms | Synonyms for Contumelious: disrespectful

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Contumelious In Webster's Dictionary

\Con`tu*me"li*ous\ (?or ?; 106), a. [L.
contumeliosus.]
1. Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent;
   disdainful.

         Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. --Shak.

         Curving a contumelious lip.           --Tennyson.

2. Shameful; disgraceful. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. --
   {Con`tu*me"li*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Con`tu*me"li*ous*ness}, n.

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