Sentence example with the word 'contumely'

contumely

abuse, atrocity, bumptiousness, disdain, flouting, insolence, obloquy, presumption, scoff, snottiness, uppishness

Last update: July 5, 2015


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The television network felt the show’s dialogue contained contumely that was inappropriate for its young viewers.    [Please select]

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As the prisoner was dragged out of court, he shouted contumely and made threats against the sentencing judge.    [Please select]

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The body of Formosus was disinterred in 897 by Stephen VI., and treated with contumely as that of a usurper of the papal throne; but Theodore II.   [Please select]

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Perishing gloomily, Spurr'd by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into her rest.   [Please select]

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He felt Keith's contempt, the spurning contumely that was in the other's mind.   [Please select]

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This contumely, to a great degree undeserved, naturally reacted upon the subjects of it.   [Please select]

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He was rewarded with contumely and lost his place as governor of New Galicia; but his romantic march stands in history as one of the most remarkable exploring expeditions of modern times.   [Please select]

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In the history of music it seems to be a rule almost without exceptions, that the works of genius are greeted with contumely.   [Please select]

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