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Word for teh Day: Contumelious
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| April 30, 2021
| Red Badger
Posted on 04/30/2021 7:38:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
contumelious adjective
con·tu·me·li·ous | \ ˌkän-tü-ˈmē-lē-əs , -tyü-ˈmē-, -chə-ˈmē- \
Definition of contumelious : insolently abusive and humiliating
abusive, invective, opprobrious, scurrile (or scurril), scurrilous, truculent, vitriolic, vituperative, vituperatory
Examples of contumelious in a Sentence a well-reasoned thesis that merited more than just a scornful, contumelious response
First Known Use of contumelious 15th century, in the meaning defined above
TOPICS: Books/Literature; History; Poetry; Word For The Day
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To play, You must use the WORD FOR THE DAY in a sentence................
To: xsmommy; Louis Foxwell; secret garden; VRWCmember; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...
Pingy Thingy!...............
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posted on
04/30/2021 7:39:33 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/30/2021 7:43:23 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
To: Red Badger
so it means democRAT?
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posted on
04/30/2021 7:44:48 AM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there is no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
To: Red Badger
Word for the day: the t-h-e
Just kidding. Not to be contumelious.
To: Chode
You might say that it’s a synonym.................
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posted on
04/30/2021 7:46:38 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
To: takebackaustin
I do that all teh time....................
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posted on
04/30/2021 7:47:16 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/30/2021 8:32:41 AM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there is no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
To: Red Badger
con-tu-melious
Spanish for “with your mammararies”.
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posted on
04/30/2021 9:36:00 AM PDT
by
moovova
(Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
To: Red Badger
And here Ah was, thinkin’ them there contumulous clouds were the dark ones with lots of rain ...
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posted on
04/30/2021 10:01:18 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
To: Robert A Cook PE
Those are nimbulomelious.
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posted on
04/30/2021 10:54:14 AM PDT
by
BDParrish
(God called, He said He'd take you back!)
To: BDParrish; Red Badger
And if you don’t the proper names for dark menacing clouds on the horizon, are they anomalous anonymous nimbluelowfelonious?
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posted on
04/30/2021 11:00:26 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
To: Red Badger; Darksheare
Is Darks lurking around here?
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posted on
04/30/2021 11:33:34 AM PDT
by
Silentgypsy
(Call an addiction hotline and say you're hooked on phonics.)
To: Robert A Cook PE
I love the direction this is taking.
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posted on
04/30/2021 11:35:11 AM PDT
by
Silentgypsy
(Call an addiction hotline and say you're hooked on phonics.)
To: Red Badger
Contumelious is a word I will never use in a sentence but, I might use it if I am ever sentenced.
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posted on
04/30/2021 11:52:06 AM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
To: Red Badger
Father’s contumelious reaction at Sunday mass to the devout parishioner who refused to receive the consecrated Host “in the hand” due to supposed COVID concerns but instead dropped on his knees and tried to receive on his tongue revealed that he was a rabid Modernist bent on destroying the age-old traditions of the Church.
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