contumelious

contumelious
    adj 1: arrogantly insolent
    

Contumelious \Con`tu*me"li*ous\ (?or ?; 106), a. [L.
   contumeliosus.]
   1. Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent;
      disdainful.
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            Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. --Shak.
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            Curving a contumelious lip.           --Tennyson.
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   2. Shameful; disgraceful. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. --
      {Con`tu*me"li*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Con`tu*me"li*ous*ness}, n.
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111 Moby Thesaurus words for "contumelious":
      Rabelaisian, abusive, arrogant, atrocious, audacious, back-biting,
      backhand, backhanded, belittling, bitchy, blasphemous, bold,
      brazen, bumptious, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, cavalier,
      censorious, clannish, cliquish, cold, comminatory, contemptuous,
      cool, critical, cursing, damnatory, defamatory, degrading,
      denunciatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive,
      derisory, derogative, derogatory, detractory, dirty, disdainful,
      dismissive, disparaging, dysphemistic, epithetic, exclusive,
      excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, familiar, forward,
      foul, fulminatory, haughty, hubristic, humiliating, impertinent,
      imprecatory, impudent, insolent, insulting, invective, left-handed,
      libelous, maledictory, minimizing, obscene, obtrusive, offensive,
      opprobrious, outrageous, overpresumptuous, overweening, pejorative,
      presuming, presumptuous, procacious, profane, pushy, railing, raw,
      ribald, ridiculing, risque, saucy, scandalous, scatologic,
      scolding, scornful, scurrile, scurrilous, severe, slanderous,
      slighting, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty,
      supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, truculent, unspeakable,
      uppish, uppity, vile, vilifying, vituperative, withering