'Contumelious' definitions:
Definition of 'contumelious'
From: WordNet
adjective
Arrogantly insolent
Definition of 'Contumelious'
From: GCIDE
- Contumelious \Con`tu*me"li*ous\ (?or ?; 106), a. [L. contumeliosus.]
- 1. Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful. [1913 Webster]
- Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Curving a contumelious lip. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Shameful; disgraceful. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. -- {Con`tu*me"li*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Con`tu*me"li*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'contumelious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abusive,
- arrogant,
- atrocious,
- audacious,
- back-biting,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- belittling,
- bitchy,
- blasphemous,
- bold,
- brazen,
- bumptious,
- calumniatory,
- calumnious,
- catty,
- cavalier,
- censorious,
- clannish,
- cliquish,
- cold,
- comminatory,
- contemptuous,
- cool,
- critical,
- cursing,
- damnatory,
- defamatory,
- degrading,
- denunciatory,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- depreciatory,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- derogative,
- derogatory,
- detractory,
- dirty,
- disdainful,
- dismissive,
- disparaging,
- dysphemistic,
- epithetic,
- exclusive,
- excommunicative,
- excommunicatory,
- execratory,
- familiar,
- forward,
- foul,
- fulminatory,
- haughty,
- hubristic,
- humiliating,
- impertinent,
- imprecatory,
- impudent,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- invective,
- left-handed,
- libelous,
- maledictory,
- minimizing,
- obscene,
- obtrusive,
- offensive,
- opprobrious,
- outrageous,
- overpresumptuous,
- overweening,
- pejorative,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- procacious,
- profane,
- pushy,
- Rabelaisian,
- railing,
- raw,
- ribald,
- ridiculing,
- risque,
- saucy,
- scandalous,
- scatologic,
- scolding,
- scornful,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- severe,
- slanderous,
- slighting,
- sneering,
- sniffy,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- supercilious,
- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- truculent,
- unspeakable,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- vile,
- vilifying,
- vituperative,
- withering