Sentence example with the word 'contumelious'

contumelious

abusive, brazen, contemptuous, derisive, exclusive, impertinent, obtrusive, pushy, scurrile, supercilious

Last update: July 22, 2015


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It would have liked him well to bring this contumelious varlet to his knees.   [Please select]

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De Spain added an impatient, not to say contumelious exclamation concerning the substance of Lefever's talk.   [Please select]

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Although I curled a contumelious lip, I smarted under the indignity.   [Please select]

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And o' course--bein' ignorant, same as me, an' hot-headed, an' eager--you treat that contumelious an' tip the Masai the office to go to hell.'   [Please select]

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They were always visited, to be sure, by the pack, at some unexpected and indeterminable moment, but treated always with a contumelious scorn which was doubtless all that such clumsy tactics merited.   [Please select]

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