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Definition of Contumelious
1. Adjective. Arrogantly insolent.
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
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Contumelious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contumelious
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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