contumacious

How To Use contumacious In A Sentence

• On his refusal to appear in person or by his attorney, he was pronounced contumacious.
• Heresy could probably still do a service as a technical term for when you defend contumaciously a view found from scripture to be callously unorthodox, rather than just holding an unorthodox opinion. The word heresy should go the way of burnings at the stake. - 22 Words
• Here my memory fails me, but I remember that, stimulated by Miss Deborah's approbation, I did commit the whole of them to memory at the time, and repeated them with a readiness and fluency which drew upon me warm commendations from the dear old lady, and in fact from all in the house, though Ellery Davenport did shrug his shoulders contumaciously and give a sort of suppressed whistle of dissent. Oldtown Folks
• For someone who has basked in the glory of being called a military hero for many years, McCain's contumacious behavior makes him so much less of a man than many of the LGBT troops who are currently serving their country. George Heymont: I Had a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Dream (And John McCain's Not Gonna Like It)
• These contumacious students were, as students frequently are, inebriated by ideas to the point of silliness.
• Here, we're spoonfed a story so contumaciously forceful and unbelievable involving Josie, a second gun, and the boy she loved. Books in 2008, #6
• The current law in Ontario is that, in order to be ordered to pay costs personally, a solicitor, acting in bad faith, must be guilty of outrageous conduct that is contumacious and so egregious as to engage the contempt powers of the court.
• Parliament was intending to impose a penalty on a contumacious employer who decides he is not going to give the employee the required statement.
• I have found him to be in wilful and contumacious breach of the injunction on him, which I am quite certain he knew perfectly well he had to obey in every respect.
• They might start saying ‘on the other hand’ and contumaciously adding counter-arguments to the lesson plans that they provide.