contumely

How To Use contumely In A Sentence

• Now, contumely, as you will remark, does not seek primarily to deprive one of a good name; which it nearly always succeeds in doing, and this is called detraction; but its object is to prevent your good name from getting its desert of respect, your character supposedly remaining intact. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
• Nursing her injuries by keeping ‘herself in a state of intoxication,’ Lucy heaped contumely on Peter, their children, and neighbors.
• The Vicomte called the contumely heaped on his father's name and his own, "a disagreeable scene. The Son of Monte-Cristo
• In this part of the country are to be found that race of persons known to the original natives as _Gavaches_: the word is one of contempt, taken from the Spanish; and the habit of treating these people with contumely, which is not even yet entirely worn out, comes from an early time: that is to say, so long ago as 1526; at which period a great part of the population on the banks of the Drot, and round La Réole and Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
• They helped us understand what we were up against: the proud man's contumely, the insolence of office.
• The etymology of the word contumely is doubtful but I am of the opinion that the derivation suggested here is not unsound. Satyricon
• Mens conscia recti" will support us under many trials; but it does not furnish armor of proof against the "poor man's scorn, the proud man's contumely. The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner
• He wept for that which had befallen him, but kept his affair secret, so none of his foes might exult over him nor any of his friends be troubled, knowing that, if he disclosed his secret, it would bring him naught but dishonour and contumely from the folk; wherefore he said in him self, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Was my name providentially ordered to be Green, that he might pass verbal contumely upon it? Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
• He was born at Vulsinii, son to Sejus Strabo, a Roman knight; in his early youth, he was a follower of Caius Caesar (grandson of Augustus) and lay then under the contumely of having for hire exposed himself to the constupration of Apicius; a debauchee wealthy and profuse: next by various artifices he so enchanted Tiberius, that he who to all others was dark and unsearchable, became to Sejanus alone destitute of all restraint and caution: nor did he so much accomplish this by any superior efforts of policy (for at his own stratagems he was vanquished by others) as by the rage of the Gods against the Roman State, to which he proved alike destructive when he flourished and when he fell. The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola