It's impolite to react with contumely. From LearnThat.org.
That phrase was flung at them, I think, in contumely at one time, but, like many such phrases, it has been adopted. From Wordnik.com. [International Relations] Reference
The Vicomte called the contumely heaped on his father's name and his own, "a disagreeable scene.". From Wordnik.com. [The Son of Monte-Cristo] Reference
Maybe "contumely" would be a better place to start. From Wordnik.com. [On modernizing or not modernizing Shakespeare] Reference
But that disdain has never before exploded into the kind of contumely we see today. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
C-Fool, I completely agree with your point of view on a lot of issues, but "contumely"???. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Rector with every mark of indignation and contumely. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Burns evoked from his Mausoleum for contumely and insult. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
And if not, how was she to survive the contumely and shame?. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
It was long the object of much contumely on the part of the. From Wordnik.com. [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference
Oddly enough, the storm of contumely had effect of inspiring Prince. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892] Reference
Being naturally domestic in his habits, he was born to that contumely. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
To wear the uniform was to bring upon one contumely, often persecution. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"] Reference
Alas! what ridicule and contumely failed to effect, destiny accomplished. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
Virginia, and throughout the land were subjected to contumely and reproach. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886] Reference
This contumely kindled the wrath of the legions: "Let day come," they cried. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
He informed the chapter that he was greatly displeased with their contumely. From Wordnik.com. [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference
An unknown girl to scorn and cast contumely upon one of England's line of lords!. From Wordnik.com. [Ellen Walton The Villain and His Victims] Reference
Define these exactly: inquisitorial; lachrymose; laconic; surreptitious; contumely. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
State -- indignant at the contumely threatened to justice and asking: Are you not ashamed?. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
To me this was all very agreeable and reassuring; to my companion it was contumely and insult. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
He has, in return for the contumely, only a smile, a deprecatory wave of the hand and a speech. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 27, 1891] Reference
Even the blameless BRYCE is held up to contumely in contrast with mild-mannered MASTER of MALWOOD. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893] Reference
His body was treated with contumely, and his head affixed to a post of the palisades of the village. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
The process was the more painful because it was now accompanied by so much degradation and contumely. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference
Canada, was the government to be daily flouted, bearded, and treated with the utmost disrespect and contumely?. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
She had arrived at conclusions about them -- conclusions of philosophic contumely, indifference, and some contempt. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
After years of patient endurance of the proud contumely of South Carolina, New England granite blocks up the harbor of. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
Northern man is sure to find his principles despised, his people contemned, and himself subjected to much disagreeable contumely. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
The other, that the law hath not provided sufficient punishment and reparations for contumely of words, as the lie, and the like. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
Walsingham, flatly and with contumely refused to ratify Leicester's arrangement, and continued to keep back the pay of the troops. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
His interposition received with such shout of contumely from friends and neighbours that he incontinently dropped back into his seat. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914] Reference
I shall see suffering every kind of wrong and contumely and risk of life, before I endeavour to interest others in their sufferings?. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
She endured vexation and contumely enough, during the most brilliant period of her life, to embitter even a less sensitive spirit than hers. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
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