SYDNEY GEDGE long been object of contumelious attention. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 7, 1891] Reference
Wherefore a gloss on Rom. 1: 30, "contumelious, proud," says. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 61: 1 Timothy The Challoner Revision] Reference
He heard the contumelious expression of the Pharisee, "this Publican.". From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
"The contumelious are those who by word or deed revile and shame others.". From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
I am very much offended at his scandalizing words and contumelious obloquy. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
He never gave contumelious language in his anger, nor inflicted punishment with reproach. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
An accusation of immorality in oneself or in one's parents is contumelious in a high degree. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
He himself complains that contumelious epithets were levelled at the doctrine and its author. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers of Biology] Reference
His coarseness is everywhere redeemed by a genuine feeling for the contumelious buffets to which weakness is exposed. From Wordnik.com. [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference
Britain, was treated by the latter, with only two exceptions, with the contumelious neglect which its disloyalty, the outcome of Tory. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland and the Home Rule Movement] Reference
These two States have often been censured for the contumelious manner in which they have sometimes sought to repel each other's arguments. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference
Louis XIV. having had it measured, and finding that he had judged rightly, treated Louvois in a contumelious manner before his whole court. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831] Reference
Joel Connelly, the contumelious liberal columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, writes today: "Sexism's alive and well on the right". From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: It's in the P-I] Reference
It is commonly said that public bodies are most insulting and contumelious to a good man, when they are puffed up with prosperity and success. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
When only three months on the throne, he chanced upon some letters in which the bishop of Vesterås alluded to him in arrogant and contumelious terms. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
The idea of students "evaluating" their professors breeds disrespect, and is insulting, patronizing and leads to degeneration and contumelious behavior by students. From Wordnik.com. [The Stealing Of AmericaThrough Sadism, Cowardice and Bullying] Reference
Impunity maketh insolence; insolence, hatred; and hatred, an endeavour to pull down all oppressing and contumelious greatness, though with the ruin of the Commonwealth. From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan] Reference
I had been brought up by Mr Knapps as contumelious. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Faithful] Reference
If in the face of proposals so contumelious of his authority. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone. From Wordnik.com. [Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul] Reference
The wrong was committed hastily, and with contumelious levity. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4] Reference
Son, thou contumelious Knight, who, let me tell thee, shall marry thy. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.] Reference
Thou art very contumelious, and deservest to be rolled in the kennel. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Faithful] Reference
Nothing could well be more contumelious than Margaret's treatment of the learned Frisian. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
If I had been bred in the east, I should be tempted to say it was a contumelious responsibility. From Wordnik.com. [A Pessimist In Theory and Practice] Reference
It was a day without a breath of wind, such as alternate in the archipelago with days of contumelious breezes. From Wordnik.com. [In the South Seas] Reference
On the other hand, to refuse a requisition made by the Throne was counted contumelious and liable to punishment. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
She displayed a frown and a contumelious lip, and endeavored to radiate an aura of disagreeableness and tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [Waifs and Strays Part 1] Reference
Her contumelious treatment of him at Portsmouth rankled; but he had satisfied himself that it was all his fault. From Wordnik.com. [Blacksheep! Blacksheep!] Reference
Dictionary, he had, with a strange want of taste and judgment, inserted bitter and contumelious reflections on the Whig party. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3] Reference
This is one reason why the empty critic is usually contumelious and flippant, the competent one as generally equitable and humane. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society] Reference
A servant of the princess's had summoned a person before the magistrates for having mentioned his lady by the contumelious appellation of a. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth] Reference
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