| It was a day without a breath of wind, such as alternate in the archipelago with days of contumelious breezes. |
| Although I curled a contumelious lip, I smarted under the indignity. |
| I weep and cry out, I have been a most contumelious offender. |
| 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. |
| It would have liked him well to bring this contumelious varlet to his knees. |
| She turned the combs and brushes over with a contumelious hand. |
