About The Word Contumely
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Contumely
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What's The Definition Of Contumely?
[n] a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Contumely: abuse | insult | revilement | vilification Related Terms | Find terms related to Contumely: abuse | affront | airs | animadversion | arrogance | aspersion | assailing | assault | assurance | atrocity | attack | audacity | berating | billingsgate | bitter words | blackening | boldness | brickbat | bumptiousness | calumny | clannishness | cliquishness | contempt | contemptuousness | cut | despite | diatribe | disdain | disdainfulness | disparagement | dump | effrontery | enormity | exclusiveness | execration | flout | flouting | gibe | hard words | hardihood | hauteur | hubris | humiliation | indignity | injury | insolence | insult | invective | jawing | jeer | jeering | jeremiad | mock | mockery | obloquy | obtrusiveness | offense | onslaught | opprobrium | outrage | overweening | overweeningness | philippic | presumption | presumptuousness | procacity | pushiness | put-down | rating | reflection | revilement | ridicule | scoff | scorn | scornfulness | screed | scurrility | slap | sniffiness | snobbishness | snootiness | snottiness | sovereign contempt | stricture | superciliousness | taunt | tirade | tongue-lashing | toploftiness | uncomplimentary remark | uppishness | uppityness | vilification | vituperation See Also | billingsgate | cut | discourtesy | disrespect | invective | low blow | scurrility | stinger | vitriol | vituperation Contumely In Webster's Dictionary \Con"tu*me*ly\, n. [L. contumelia, prob. akin to
contemnere to despise: cf. OF. contumelie. Cf. {Contumacy}.]
Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful
insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in
act or speech; disgrace.
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely.
--Shak.
Nothing aggravates tyranny so much as contumely.
--Burke.
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