Definition of Contumelious

1. Adjective. Arrogantly insolent.

Similar to: Disrespectful
Derivative terms: Contumely

Definition of Contumelious

1. a. Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.

Definition of Contumelious

1. Adjective. (archaic literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful. ¹

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Definition of Contumelious

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contumelious

controverter
controverters
controvertible
controvertibly
controverting
controvertist
controvertists
controverts
contubernal
contumacies
contumacious
contumaciously
contumaciousness
contumacy
contumelies
contumelious (current term)
contumeliously
contumeliousness
contumely
contund
contunded
contunds
conturbation
conturbed
contuse
contused
contuses
contusing
contusion
contusion pneumonia

Literary usage of Contumelious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1881)
"... or evil or crime, so insolent or contumelious as to intimidate the Goddess of Liberty and Humanity, who has her home within this temple. ..."

2. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (1885)
"... whereas virulent and contumelious words appear to be the expression of needless hatred, and to proceed from an excess of rancor. ..."

3. The Arguments of the Counsel of Joseph Hendrickson, #bin a Cause Decided in by George Wood, Isaac Halsted Williamson, Joseph Hendrickson, James Field, Charles Field, New Jersey Court of Chancery (1833)
"... to be punishable, must be of a contumelious character ; the statute doctrine of blasphemy being merely declaratory of the common law. ..."

4. The Acts of the High Commission Court Within the Diocese of Durham by William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe (1858)
"... contumelious speeches in the sermon) tending not only to the reproach of divine service usually performed in the cathedral and collegiate churches of ..."

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