Word for teh Day: Contumelious

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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

[Red Badger]

To play, You must use the WORD FOR THE DAY in a sentence................

[Red Badger]

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[Diogenesis]

[Chode]

so it means democRAT?

[takebackaustin]

Word for the day: the t-h-e

Just kidding. Not to be contumelious.

[Red Badger]

You might say that it’s a synonym.................

[Red Badger]

I do that all teh time....................

[Chode]

100%

[moovova]

con-tu-melious

Spanish for “with your mammararies”.

[Robert A Cook PE]

And here Ah was, thinkin’ them there contumulous clouds were the dark ones with lots of rain ...

[BDParrish]

Those are nimbulomelious.

[Robert A Cook PE]

And if you don’t the proper names for dark menacing clouds on the horizon, are they anomalous anonymous nimbluelowfelonious?

[Silentgypsy]

Is Darks lurking around here?

[Silentgypsy]

I love the direction this is taking.

[right way right]

Contumelious is a word I will never use in a sentence but, I might use it if I am ever sentenced.

[one guy in new jersey]

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.