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Contumelious

//ˌkɑn.tʊˈmiː.li.əs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; exhibiting an insolent or disdainful attitude. archaic, literary

    "VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo."

Adjective
  1. 1
    arrogantly insolent wordnet

Etymology

From Old French contumelieus, from Latin contumēliōsus (“insulting; abusive”), from contumēlia (“affront, abuse, insult”).

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