Crossword-Solution: CONTUMACIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contumacious | a. | Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient. |
| Contumacious | a. | Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court. |
We have 77 clues for the answer “CONTUMACIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A CONTUMACEOUS WITNESS IS SUBJECT TO PUNISHMENT | 11 answers |
| BACKSTABBING | 14 answers |
| reforming | 26 answers |
| anarchistic | 43 answers |
| insurrectionary | 44 answers |
| Bull-headed | 44 answers |
| resisting | 45 answers |
| anarchical | 45 answers |
| treasonous | 52 answers |
| froward | 53 answers |
| ungovernable | 54 answers |
| guerrilla | 55 answers |
| uncooperative | 57 answers |
| Pig-headed | 60 answers |
| perfidious | 61 answers |
| Intractable | 62 answers |
| Recalcitrant | 63 answers |
| Disloyal | 63 answers |
| obstreperous | 65 answers |
| Incorrigible | 65 answers |
| Revolutionary? | 65 answers |
| perverse | 66 answers |
| Obdurate | 66 answers |
| Insistent. | 67 answers |
| wilful | 67 answers |
| Head-strong? | 67 answers |
| Resistant | 68 answers |
| fractious | 68 answers |
| disobedient | 68 answers |
| insubordinate | 68 answers |
| mulish | 69 answers |
| refractory | 70 answers |
| rowdy | 70 answers |
| seditious | 71 answers |
| Tenacious | 71 answers |
| factious | 71 answers |
| traitorous | 71 answers |
| Unbending | 72 answers |
| unmanageable | 72 answers |
| mutinous | 72 answers |
| Undisciplined | 73 answers |
| Adamant | 75 answers |
| Unruly | 75 answers |
| Persistent | 75 answers |
| Uncontrol-lable | 75 answers |
| Wayward | 76 answers |
| Rebellious | 76 answers |
| quarrelsome | 76 answers |
| Naughty | 76 answers |
| Treacherous | 76 answers |
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Sentences with CONTUMACIOUS (5)
She had not forgotten the stories whispered to her childhood, of dreadful fates reserved for contumacious and disobedient women.
One thing, however, is strictly forbidden, and if in this instance they prove contumacious, the betrothment is instantly broken and the pair are never united, and thenceforward bear an evil reputation amongst their sect.
Four successive summons were signified to Chrysostom; but he still refused to trust either his person or his reputation in the hands of his implacable enemies, who, prudently declining the examination of any particular charges, condemned his contumacious disobedience, and hastily pronounced a sentence of deposition.
But the patriarch Nicholas refused his blessing: the Imperial baptism of the young prince was obtained by a promise of separation; and the contumacious husband of Zoe was excluded from the communion of the faithful.
The same spirit rendered them arrogant and contumacious: they were easily provoked by caprice or injury; and their privileges were often violated by the faithless bigotry of the government and clergy.
Quotes with CONTUMACIOUS (2)
When I left high school with my diploma, it felt like I was holding a key that would unlock the door to a better world. Every teacher I passed on my way down to the parking lot — the ones who suspended me for questioning them both earnestly and in jest, suspended me for using a contumacious hip-shake as my hallway gait, suspended me for me being me — the ones who would roll their eyes if my behavior was, on the whole, unpatriotic, unjustified, and immature — well, on the way …
If any pilgrim monk come from distant parts with wish as a guest to dwell in the monastery and will be content with the customs which he finds in the place and does not perchance by his lavishness disturb the monastery but is simply content with what he finds he shall be received for as long as he desires. If indeed he find fault with anything or expose it reasonably and with the humility of charity the Abbott shall discuss it prudently lest perchance God had sent him for thi…