Meaning of CONTUMELIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | `kântoo'meeleeus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] arrogantly insolent |
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| | Synonyms: | | disrespectful |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Con`tu*me"li*ous\ (?or ?; 106), a. [L.
contumeliosus.]
1. Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent;
disdainful.
Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. --Shak.
Curving a contumelious lip. --Tennyson.
2. Shameful; disgraceful. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. --
{Con`tu*me"li*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Con`tu*me"li*ous*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | abusive, arrogant, atrocious, audacious, back-biting, backhand, backhanded, belittling, bitchy, blasphemous, bold, brazen, bumptious, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, cavalier, censorious, clannish, cliquish, cold, comminatory, contemptuous, cool, critical, cursing, damnatory, defamatory, degrading, denunciatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detractory, dirty, disdainful, dismissive, disparaging, dysphemistic, epithetic, exclusive, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, familiar, forward, foul, fulminatory, haughty, hubristic, humiliating, impertinent, imprecatory, impudent, insolent, insulting, invective, left-handed, libelous, maledictory, minimizing, obscene, obtrusive, offensive, opprobrious, outrageous, overpresumptuous, overweening, pejorative, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, profane, pushy, Rabelaisian, railing, raw, ribald, ridiculing, risque, saucy, scandalous, scatologic, scolding, scornful, scurrile, scurrilous, severe, slanderous, slighting, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, truculent, unspeakable, uppish, uppity, vile, vilifying, vituperative, withering |
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