How To Use Contumelious In A Sentence
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Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt and ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall be punished
Only religious thugs love blasphemy laws | Nick Cohen
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But I will urge these cavilling and contumelious arguments no farther, lest some physician should mistake me, and deny me physic when I am sick: for my part, I am well persuaded of physic: I can distinguish the abuse from the use, in this and many other arts and sciences:
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Jack Ketch, refused the bills with scorn, wrote back contumeliously to the old gentleman, bidding him to mind his own affairs; and the protested paper coming back, Sedley and Co. had to take it up, with the profits which they had made out of the Madras venture, and with
Vanity Fair
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In the first scene, Madoc discovers an English plot to exhume his father's bones and discard them "In some unhallowed pit, with foul disgrace/And contumelious wrong" (Southey, Madoc 128).
The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism
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[3577] Jovius concludes, it is almost fatal to great princes, through their own default or otherwise circumvented with envy and malice, to lose their honours, and die contumeliously.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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For my part, I confess my contumelious self-confidence and insolence to man, as well as blasphemy to Heaven.
Anne of Geierstein
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I've just looked in a couple of modern dictionaries, and there it is, along with 'contumeliously'.
On modernizing or not modernizing Shakespeare
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So liberty does not necessarily mean that you do whatever you want arrogantly and contumeliously, but the premise to be "WITH NO HARM TO OTHERS".
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Naturally, there are other sides to these issues, but you'll learn more from reading the BIAW's own analysis than you would from listening to the ignorant fulminations of Joni Balter and that other lazy contumelious liberal columnist.
Sound Politics: Joni Balter: Washington's laziest editorial writer?
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While the plaintiff has not acted expeditiously in this case, I am not prepared to find that the default is intentional and contumelious, that is, in deliberate contravention of a peremptory order of the court.
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But those things which, as soon as they are made, come to an end, may justly be said rather to have been formed for the contempt of such as are thought to be honoured by them; and that that which is eternal is contumeliously treated when its image is corrupted and dissolved.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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Joel Connelly, the P-I's contumelious liberal columnist, is troubled by Astroturf PACs which "hide the identities of people" paying for political campaigns.
Sound Politics: It's in the P-I
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That cannot be considered a deliberate or contumelious delay undertaken by one litigant in an attempt to thwart the rights of an opposing litigant.
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While the plaintiffs have the onus to proceed expeditiously and with dispatch in the prosecution of an action, this is not a case where the default has been intentional or contumelious.
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And that Onomarchus contumeliously answered him, that the field had been a more proper place than this to show his contempt of death.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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pundonor," the high punctilio, and rarely drew the stiletto in their disputes, but their pride was silent and contumelious.
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
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When thou sufferest all this transport and sickness and trouble being enamoured of one who returneth thy passion, how would it be with thee if she whom thou lovest were contrary and contumelious, and thy case were discovered through her perfidy?
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Impunity maketh insolence; insolence, hatred; and hatred, an endeavour to pull down all oppressing and contumelious greatness, though with the ruin of the Commonwealth.
Leviathan
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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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What the law has for a long time required is merely conscious wrongdoing in the sense of volition and in contumelious disregard of another's rights.
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Whenever, therefore, they are treated harshly and contumeliously by men, let them take refuge in this thought, that God will be the more propitious to them.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
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One might believe Lucullus thought his money really captive and barbarian, so wantonly and contumeliously did he treat it.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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It wasn't his fault that he liked you more than a compatriot and did a truly contumelious act out of selfish passionate feelings towards you.
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Joel Connelly, the contumelious liberal columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, writes today: "Sexism's alive and well on the right".
Sound Politics: It's in the P-I
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Meanwhile, Joel Connelly, the contumelious liberal columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is crying foul because the two highly qualified and judicially restrained challengers, Stephen Johnson and John Groen, are receiving campaign contributions from folks whom Connelly doesn't approve of: "Outside interests influencing court races".
Sound Politics: Chief Justice Alexander is "Very Well Qualified" to legislate from the bench
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And the rest laid hands on his servants and, having treated them contumeliously, put them to death.
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From Oswestry he went to Donnington near Shrewsbury, where under a certain Scotchman named Douglas, who was an absentee, and who died Bishop of Salisbury, he officiated as curate and master of a grammar school for a stipend — always grudgingly and contumeliously paid — of three-and-twenty pounds a year.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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Whosoever shall willfully blaspheme the holy name of God, by cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, and whosoever shall profanely curse or damn or swear by the name of God, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Ghost, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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In Rachel the pride of the human mind is depicted; because they whom God has endowed with his benefits, for the most part are so elated, that they rage contumeliously against their neighbors.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
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In great wrath he swore to take vengeance on the man who had dared to tear up his complaint so contumeliously.