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How to use contumelious in a sentence

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

Sentence Examples
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.
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.
That cannot be considered a deliberate or contumelious delay undertaken by one litigant in an attempt to thwart the rights of an opposing litigant.
Examples from Classical Literature
If I had been bred in the east, I should be tempted to say it was a contumelious responsibility.
It was a day without a breath of wind, such as alternate in the archipelago with days of contumelious breezes.
He who with delight hears idle discourse or contumelious words, makes his ear a gate of death to himself.
It would have liked him well to bring this contumelious varlet to his knees.
Although I curled a contumelious lip, I smarted under the indignity.
The wrong was committed hastily, and with contumelious levity.
Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious.
If we keep telling them what we think of them, can we induce them to be a bit less contumelious and mend their manners?
I weep and cry out, I have been a most contumelious offender.
She turned the combs and brushes over with a contumelious hand.
Who now hath plumbed the depths of a contumelious paronomasia?
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