The contumacious student dared to gainsay his teacher.
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Contumacious
//ˌkɒn.tjʊˈmeɪ.ʃəs//
Synonyms for "contumacious" (56 found)
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25 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- непокорен adj (contemptuous of authority)
- упорит adj (contemptuous of authority)
French
1 entries- contumace adj (in law, willfully disobedient)
German
1 entries- ungehorsam adj (contemptuous of authority)
Japanese
2 entries- 官命抗拒の adj (contemptuous of authority)
- 服従しない adj (in law, willfully disobedient)
Latin
2 entries- contumax adj (contemptuous of authority)
- contumax adj (in law, willfully disobedient)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- gjenstridig adj (contemptuous of authority)
- hardnakket adj (contemptuous of authority)
- ulydig adj (in law, willfully disobedient)
Polish
4 entries- krnąbrny adj (contemptuous of authority)
- krnąbrny adj (in law, willfully disobedient)
- nieposłuszny adj (contemptuous of authority)
- nieposłuszny adj (in law, willfully disobedient)
Russian
2 entries- непослу́шный adj (contemptuous of authority)
- несгово́рчивый adj (contemptuous of authority)
Spanish
2 entries- contumaz adj (in law, willfully disobedient)
- insubordinado adj (contemptuous of authority)
Swedish
2 entries- gensträvig adj (contemptuous of authority)
- tredskande adj (in law, willfully disobedient)
Turkish
1 entries- itaatsiz adj (contemptuous of authority)
Ukrainian
1 entries- непокі́рний adj (contemptuous of authority)
Sample sentences
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[…] and, on his conſtancie, ſounds an accuſation to Herod of a contumacious affront, on ſuch a day, before many peers; præpares the king to ſome paſſion, and at laſt, by her daughter’s dancing, effects it.
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In all places too are Dissident Priests; whom the Legislative will have to deal with: contumacious individuals, working on that angriest of passions; plotting, enlisting.
Source: wiktionary
But the emperor has ordered that if the count remain contumacious Thekla shall be taken from us and placed in a convent, where she will be forced to embrace Catholicism, and will, when she comes of age, be given in marriage to some adherent of the emperor, who will with her receive the greater portion of her father's lands.
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