contumelious

1. (archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; exhibiting an insolent or disdainful attitude.Examples: "VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo."; "To sin against his law, is an high affront to his majesty; but to sin against his love and benefits is more contumelious to him."; "Such, and more contumelious, was the language of opposition in parliament, and of the pretended patriots in their private meetings, during the whole administration of sir Robert Walpole, who understood and pursued the true interests of his country, but, perhaps, without sufficiently attending to its honour."Synonyms: disdainful, insolentarchaicliterary