contumelious

• Thou art very contumelious, and deservest to be rolled in the kennel. —  Jacob Faithful
• His coarseness is everywhere redeemed by a genuine feeling for the contumelious buffets to which weakness is exposed. —  An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times
• These two States have often been censured for the contumelious manner in which they have sometimes sought to repel each other's arguments. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862
• Our Lord gives three concrete illustrations of what He enjoins, the first of which refers to insults such as contumelious blows on the cheek, which are perhaps the hardest not to meet with a flash of anger and a returning stroke; the second of which refers to assaults on property, such as an attempt at legal robbery of a man's undergarment; the third of which refers to forced labour, such as impressing a peasant to carry military or official baggage or documents--a form of oppression only too well known under Roman rule in Christ's days. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII
• Every kind of contumelious reproach is heaped on the heads of the working men who dare to replace him when he strikes; and he does not scruple to use under such conditions weapons more convincing than the most opprobrious epithets. —  The Promise of American Life

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