The state will have to enforce the law over contumacious individuals aiming to undermine the government. From LearnThat.org.
I believe she was pronounced 'contumacious' by the. From Wordnik.com. [The Pacha of Many Tales] Reference
She sighed especially over "contumacious"; it was so beautifully long. From Wordnik.com. ['Lizbeth of the Dale] Reference
“They are a contumacious generation,” replied the gardener. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
Gates's behavior may have been contumacious, rude, discourteous, name it. From Wordnik.com. [Lionel: Gatesgate: They've All Got It Wrong.] Reference
Bellingham to the last maintained his contumacious and determined character. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
DIAZ: Contempt is a willful and contumacious behavior against the court order. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2007] Reference
She sat still, looking a little contumacious, and very much indisposed to stir. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
He was not contumacious, he did but enquire and question, and in all solemnity. From Wordnik.com. [The Heretic's Apprentice]
But if I were to be contumacious, I might thank myself for all that would follow. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
But, the cardinal declared Huss contumacious, and excommunicated him accordingly. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Oblivious to the petty discord of contumacious sentients, a storm blew in from the east. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
Hornblower, after a lifetime of meek submission, had suddenly become contumacious and unruly. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
The young woman was left scarred for life brought by the contumacious attitude of the perpetrator. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Case of Hit and Run in Sydney Dismissed] Reference
Hard labor for life had been the sentence pronounced against the escaped and contumacious accomplices. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Instead Beau decided he would bring this contumacious individual back to the institute and infect him. From Wordnik.com. [Invasion]
The contumacious gentleman was a friend of his, whom he knew that no arguments would induce to apologise. From Wordnik.com. [Ayala's Angel] Reference
"Proud, resentful, sullen - No," said Zabdas beneath that gaze, "I cannot in honesty call her contumacious.". From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
Africa's reform process has been stalled by contumacious chicanery, willful deception, and strong-arm tactics. From Wordnik.com. [George Ayittey: Obama's Victory Shames Africa] Reference
On occasion, Mr. Atkinson reaches too far for a word -- "narthex," "contumacious" and "nugacities," to name a few. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Slog] Reference
I found him contumacious as to some enquiries which I thought it proper to prosecute; but of this more at another time. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Dangerous] Reference
Hallet procured a company of United States dragoons from Fort Leavenworth, and rode down upon the contumacious contractors. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
Katharine, refusing to appear, was declared contumacious; and the Court pronounced her marriage void while confirming Anne's. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Drug dealing, bank robbing and other manner of organized and contumacious criminality become integral extensions of the struggle. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Upon deliberation, they deposed the contumacious presbytery from their functions as clergymen, and declared their churches vacant. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
For, I was persuaded, whatever the nature of their opinions might be, a contumacious and inflexible obstinacy certainly deserves correction. From Wordnik.com. [The Prayer Book Explained] Reference
So getting behind him, we drove him and the contumacious mule before us, until we could see through the twilight the gleaming of a distant fire. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
He thought they had become thus contumacious, he said, because the men had not individually exercised their rightful authority over their own wives. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Their contumacious voices, mingled with the clamor of their looms, died off in the distance, while we proceeded down the back staircase to the ground-floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Lord John was the man as to whose expulsion because of his contumacious language so much had been said, but who lived through that and various other dangers. From Wordnik.com. [Ayala's Angel] Reference
Throughout the whole evening he could not be got for a moment to join any of the club juntas which were discussing the great difficulty of the contumacious gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [Ayala's Angel] Reference
His wife, however, was not so bitterly contumacious as to refuse admittance to his friend, and he heard the rustle of the ponderous silk as the old woman was shown upstairs. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
Eugene and his cardinals ignored a second summons, were pronounced contumacious; Eugene dissolved the council and called another to meet at Ferrara; his supporters left Basel. From Wordnik.com. [1378-1417] Reference
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