Complete Definition of "contumelious"

English

Adjective
contumelious

  1. Of or pertaining to rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.

#: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. - :s:Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes|Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, Robert Louis Stevenson.

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