contumely

How To Use contumely In A Sentence

• The accessaries of ancient distinction, to which the Baron, in the pride of his heart, had attached so much importance and veneration, were treated with peculiar contumely. Waverley
• They helped us understand what we were up against: the proud man's contumely, the insolence of office.
• Cesarotti was called corrupter, sacrilegious, profane, and assailed with titles of obscene contumely; but the poems of Ossian were read by all, and the name of the translator, till then little known, became famous in and out of Italy. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions
• Honest men abhor, villains treat me with contumely; and he for who I incurred all this, because I would not, when my eyes were open to my sin, again imbrue my hands in the blood of my country, Edward thrusts me from him! The Scottish Chiefs
• It was Celtic's centenary season, and Macca was instrumental in winning the double, league title and cup for the club - not without the usual contumely.
• One finds in Wolcot's mock-epic a shower of contumely constantly trained upon epic.
• That phrase was flung at them, I think, in contumely at one time, but, like many such phrases, it has been adopted. International Relations
• There’s the respect that makes for so long life, for who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, the pangs of disprized love, the law’s delay, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes, when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? Shakespearean costume - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
• And why - if they have actually talked to the police and prosecuting authorities - do they dismiss their ‘scepticism’ with such contumely?
• You're never going to please everybody, but my feeling is there seems to have been less contumely than might have been expected, because we have taken people with us.