Contumelious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Contumelious \Con`tu*me"li*ous\ (?or ?; 106), a. [L.
     contumeliosus.]
     1. Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent;
        disdainful.
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              Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. --Shak.
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              Curving a contumelious lip.           --Tennyson.
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     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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  contumelious
       adj : arrogantly insolent

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  111 Moby Thesaurus words for "contumelious":
     Rabelaisian, 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, 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