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contumelious

English

Etymology

From Old French contumelieus, from Latin contum?li?sus (“insulting; abusive”), from contum?lia (“affront, abuse, insult”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?k?n.tj??mi?.li.?s/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?k?n.t??mi?.li.?s/, /?k?n.tju?mi?.li.?s/

Adjective

contumelious (comparative more contumelious, superlative most contumelious)

  1. (archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; exhibiting an insolent or disdainful attitude.
    • a. 1699, William Bates, The Danger of Prosperity, 1815, The Whole Works of the Rev. W. Bates, Volume 2, page 262,
      To sin against his law, is an high affront to his majesty; but to sin against his love and benefits is more contumelious to him.
    • 1784, William Russell, The History of Modern Europe, in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son, Volume 5, 1822, New Edition, page 104,
      Such, and more contumelious, was the language of opposition in parliament, and of the pretended patriots in their private meetings, during the whole administration of sir Robert Walpole, who understood and pursued the true interests of his country, but, perhaps, without sufficiently attending to its honour.
    • 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
      The pad would not stay on Modestine’s back for half a moment. I returned it to its maker, with whom I had so contumelious a passage that the street outside was crowded from wall to wall with gossips looking on and listening.

Synonyms

  • (rudely contemptuous): disdainful, insolent

Related terms

  • contumeliousness
  • contumeliously
  • contumely

Translations

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shameful

English

Etymology

From Middle English schameful, schamfull, from Old English *s?eamfull, s?eomfull, equivalent to shame +? -ful. Cognate with Danish skamfuld (“shameful, shamefast, ashamed”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??e?mf?l/

Adjective

shameful (comparative more shameful, superlative most shameful)

  1. Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful
    • 2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo:
      "They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."
  2. Giving offense.

Synonyms

  • See Thesaurus:despicable

Derived terms

  • shamefully
  • shamefulness

Translations

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