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How to use contumacious in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word contumacious? Here are some examples.

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These contumacious students were, as students frequently are, inebriated by ideas to the point of silliness.
Parliament was intending to impose a penalty on a contumacious employer who decides he is not going to give the employee the required statement.
In England, both houses of Parliament have asserted their power to punish contumacious acts.
I have found him to be in wilful and contumacious breach of the injunction on him, which I am quite certain he knew perfectly well he had to obey in every respect.
The Most Obvious Question of All: Even leaving his grotesquely problematic past to one side, how is it that a public and contumacious dissenter like Raymond Gravel was not dismissed from the priesthood three years ago?
Examples from Classical Literature
It was here that he entertained favored guests when in relaxation, or hetcheled contumacious officers when in tenser moods.
But if I were to be contumacious, I might thank myself for all that would follow.
But, the cardinal declared Huss contumacious, and excommunicated him accordingly.
Audrey was inclined to be contumacious, but she would not yield the matter so meekly.
The court pronounced him contumacious, and sentenced him to be excommunicated.
Nor does it necessarily follow that such a child must be contumacious or disobedient.
Hugh simply added excommunication to the contumacious deacon.
Carr Vipont was literally stunned by a reply so contumacious.
A contumacious act or spirit is contemptuous as well as defiant.
He was contumacious and refused to appear when summoned to abjure.
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