“Parliament was intending to impose a penalty on a contumacious employer who decides he is not going to give the employee the required statement.”

“These contumacious students were, as students frequently are, inebriated by ideas to the point of silliness.”

“Audrey was inclined to be contumacious, but she would not yield the matter so meekly.”

“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.”

“That cannot be considered a deliberate or contumelious delay undertaken by one litigant in an attempt to thwart the rights of an opposing litigant.”

“What the law has for a long time required is merely conscious wrongdoing in the sense of volition and in contumelious disregard of another's rights.”