'Contumely' definitions:
Definition of 'contumely'
(from WordNet)
noun
A rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team" [syn: abuse, insult, revilement, contumely, vilification]
Definition of 'Contumely'
From: GCIDE
- Contumely \Con"tu*me*ly\, n. [L. contumelia, prob. akin to contemnere to despise: cf. OF. contumelie. Cf. Contumacy.] Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace. [1913 Webster]
- The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Nothing aggravates tyranny so much as contumely. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'contumely'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abuse,
- affront,
- airs,
- animadversion,
- arrogance,
- aspersion,
- assailing,
- assault,
- assurance,
- atrocity,
- attack,
- audacity,
- berating,
- billingsgate,
- bitter words,
- blackening,
- boldness,
- brickbat,
- bumptiousness,
- calumny,
- clannishness,
- cliquishness,
- contempt,
- contemptuousness,
- cut,
- despite,
- diatribe,
- disdain,
- disdainfulness,
- disparagement,
- dump,
- effrontery,
- enormity,
- exclusiveness,
- execration,
- flout,
- flouting,
- gibe,
- hard words,
- hardihood,
- hauteur,
- hubris,
- humiliation,
- indignity,
- injury,
- insolence,
- insult,
- invective,
- jawing,
- jeer,
- jeering,
- jeremiad,
- mock,
- mockery,
- obloquy,
- obtrusiveness,
- offense,
- onslaught,
- opprobrium,
- outrage,
- overweening,
- overweeningness,
- philippic,
- presumption,
- presumptuousness,
- procacity,
- pushiness,
- put-down,
- rating,
- reflection,
- revilement,
- ridicule,
- scoff,
- scorn,
- scornfulness,
- screed,
- scurrility,
- slap,
- sniffiness,
- snobbishness,
- snootiness,
- snottiness,
- sovereign contempt,
- stricture,
- superciliousness,
- taunt,
- tirade,
- tongue-lashing,
- toploftiness,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- uppishness,
- uppityness,
- vilification,
- vituperation