Usually means: Insolently abusive and humiliating behavior.
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  1. contumelious: Merriam-Webster
  2. contumelious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contumelious: Collins English Dictionary
  4. contumelious: Vocabulary.com
  5. contumelious: Wordnik
  6. contumelious: Wiktionary
  7. contumelious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Contumelious, contumelious: Dictionary.com
  9. Contumelious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. contumelious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. contumelious: Rhymezone
  12. Contumelious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. contumelious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. contumelious: FreeDictionary.org
  15. contumelious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Contumelious: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. contumelious: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; exhibiting an insolent or disdainful attitude.

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disrespectful, contemptive, scornful, sneering, nasty, mocking, contemptible, haughty, calumnious, cunty, more...

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disrespectful, contemptive, scornful, sneering, nasty, mocking, contemptible, haughty, calumnious, cunty, more...



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