Usage examples (20)

• States chiefly to be affected, because their people were then contumaciously engaged in the rebellion.
• A fourth man had, thereupon, put his hat on his head, and had declared contumaciously that the “assertion was not true”.
• Having so declared he had contumaciously stalked out of the room, and had banged the door after him — very contumaciously indeed.
• But if they will not be fools, if they contumaciously refuse to be fools, they disturb the necessary conditions of kingship, and, of course, deserve much reprobation.