How To Use Contumely In A Sentence
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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
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They helped us understand what we were up against: the proud man's contumely, the insolence of office.
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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
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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
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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.
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One finds in Wolcot's mock-epic a shower of contumely constantly trained upon epic.
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That phrase was flung at them, I think, in contumely at one time, but, like many such phrases, it has been adopted.
International Relations
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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?
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And why - if they have actually talked to the police and prosecuting authorities - do they dismiss their ‘scepticism’ with such contumely?
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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.
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Amid these careless warders glided the puny form of a little old Turk, poorly dressed like a marabout or santon of the desert — a sort of enthusiasts, who sometimes ventured into the camp of the Crusaders, though treated always with contumely, and often with violence.
The Talisman
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Maybe "contumely" would be a better place to start.
On modernizing or not modernizing Shakespeare
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Now, contumely, as you will remark, does not seek primarily to deprive one of a good name; which it nearly always succeeds in doing, and this is called detraction; but its object is to prevent your good name from getting its desert of respect, your character supposedly remaining intact.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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In recent days there has been a great deal of ill-informed comment about our Deputy Prime Minister’s penchant for the game of croquet; he has suffered obloquy and had contumely poured over him – and dried contumely is a devil to brush off one’s jacket.
The Bonkers Code
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Bonus points for dragging much-neglected "contumely" out of retirement, but otherwise it's babbling-as-usual over at the Pod Works.
Ellis Weiner: Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry?
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He was born at Vulsinii, son to Sejus Strabo, a Roman knight; in his early youth, he was a follower of Caius Caesar (grandson of Augustus) and lay then under the contumely of having for hire exposed himself to the constupration of Apicius; a debauchee wealthy and profuse: next by various artifices he so enchanted Tiberius, that he who to all others was dark and unsearchable, became to Sejanus alone destitute of all restraint and caution: nor did he so much accomplish this by any superior efforts of policy (for at his own stratagems he was vanquished by others) as by the rage of the Gods against the Roman State, to which he proved alike destructive when he flourished and when he fell.
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
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Was my name providentially ordered to be Green, that he might pass verbal contumely upon it?
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
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He wept for that which had befallen him, but kept his affair secret, so none of his foes might exult over him nor any of his friends be troubled, knowing that, if he disclosed his secret, it would bring him naught but dishonour and contumely from the folk; wherefore he said in him self,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Mens conscia recti" will support us under many trials; but it does not furnish armor of proof against the "poor man's scorn, the proud man's contumely.
The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner
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The etymology of the word contumely is doubtful but I am of the opinion that the derivation suggested here is not unsound.
Satyricon
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They helped us understand what we were up against: the proud man's contumely, the insolence of office.
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In this part of the country are to be found that race of persons known to the original natives as _Gavaches_: the word is one of contempt, taken from the Spanish; and the habit of treating these people with contumely, which is not even yet entirely worn out, comes from an early time: that is to say, so long ago as 1526; at which period a great part of the population on the banks of the Drot, and round La Réole and
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
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The Vicomte called the contumely heaped on his father's name and his own, "a disagreeable scene.
The Son of Monte-Cristo
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Nursing her injuries by keeping ‘herself in a state of intoxication,’ Lucy heaped contumely on Peter, their children, and neighbors.
