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Webster 1913 Edition
Contumelious
Conˊtu-me′li-ous
(?or ?; 106)
, Adj.
[L.
contumeliosus
.] 1.
Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.
Scoffs, and scorns, and
contumelious
taunts. Shakespeare
Curving a
– contumelious
lip. Tennyson.
Conˊtu-me′li-ous-ly
, adv.
Conˊtu-me′li-ous-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Contumelious
CONTUMELIOUS
,Adj.
1.
Haughtily reproachful; contemptuous; insolent; rude and sarcastic; as contumelious language.2.
Haughty and contemptuous; disposed to utter reproach, or to insult; insolent; proudly rude; as a contumelious person.3.
Reproachful; shameful; ignominious.Definition 2024
contumelious
contumelious
English
Adjective
contumelious (comparative more contumelious, superlative most contumelious)
- (archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful.
- 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
- 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.
- 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
Synonyms
- (rudely contemptuous): disdainful, insolent
Related terms
Translations
rudely contemptuous; showing contumely
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