How To Use contumelious In A Sentence
- pundonor," the high punctilio, and rarely drew the stiletto in their disputes, but their pride was silent and contumelious. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
- In great wrath he swore to take vengeance on the man who had dared to tear up his complaint so contumeliously.
- In Rachel the pride of the human mind is depicted; because they whom God has endowed with his benefits, for the most part are so elated, that they rage contumeliously against their neighbors. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
- Whosoever shall willfully blaspheme the holy name of God, by cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, and whosoever shall profanely curse or damn or swear by the name of God, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Ghost, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
- From Oswestry he went to Donnington near Shrewsbury, where under a certain Scotchman named Douglas, who was an absentee, and who died Bishop of Salisbury, he officiated as curate and master of a grammar school for a stipend — always grudgingly and contumeliously paid — of three-and-twenty pounds a year. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
- And the rest laid hands on his servants and, having treated them contumeliously, put them to death.
- Meanwhile, Joel Connelly, the contumelious liberal columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is crying foul because the two highly qualified and judicially restrained challengers, Stephen Johnson and John Groen, are receiving campaign contributions from folks whom Connelly doesn't approve of: "Outside interests influencing court races". Sound Politics: Chief Justice Alexander is "Very Well Qualified" to legislate from the bench
- Joel Connelly, the contumelious liberal columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, writes today: "Sexism's alive and well on the right". Sound Politics: It's in the P-I
- It wasn't his fault that he liked you more than a compatriot and did a truly contumelious act out of selfish passionate feelings towards you.
- One might believe Lucullus thought his money really captive and barbarian, so wantonly and contumeliously did he treat it. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
