Contumelious

Quick meaning: Contumelious is an adjective meaning (archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; exhibiting an insolent or disdainful attitude.

Meaning

(archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; exhibiting an insolent or disdainful attitude.

Example Sentences

"How now, you scullions and cullions: bring hither a pair of cow's hooves to out face this contumelious caitiff."

To sin against his law, is an high affront to his majesty; but to sin against his love and benefits is more contumelious to him.

The pad would not stay on Modestine’s back for half a moment. I returned it to its maker, with whom I had so contumelious a passage that the street outside was crowded from wall to wall with gossips looking on and listening.

VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.

Synonyms for contumelious

Depending on context, synonyms include disdainful, insolent, disrespectful.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disrespectful, contemptive, scornful, sneering, nasty, mocking.

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