Crossword-Solution: CONTUMELIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Contumelious | a. | Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful. |
| Contumelious | a. | Shameful; disgraceful. |
We have 151 clues for the answer “CONTUMELIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| calumnious | 33 answers |
| unparliamentary | 48 answers |
| anathematising | 49 answers |
| calumniating | 49 answers |
| comminatory | 49 answers |
| denunciatory | 49 answers |
| fulminatory | 49 answers |
| humiliating | 49 answers |
| imprecatory | 49 answers |
| libelling | 49 answers |
| maledictory | 49 answers |
| reviling | 49 answers |
| shaming | 49 answers |
| damnatory | 50 answers |
| injuring | 50 answers |
| Vituperative. | 52 answers |
| censorious | 52 answers |
| debasing | 52 answers |
| depreciative | 52 answers |
| Maligning. | 53 answers |
| Maleficent | 53 answers |
| Scurrilous | 54 answers |
| derogative | 55 answers |
| Vitriolic | 56 answers |
| disapproving | 58 answers |
| causing | 59 answers |
| invective | 61 answers |
| Defamatory | 64 answers |
| in a rut | 65 answers |
| snuffy | 65 answers |
| slanderous | 66 answers |
| Stand-offish | 66 answers |
| asocial | 66 answers |
| thwarting | 66 answers |
| shameful | 67 answers |
| Hurting | 67 answers |
| curmudgeonly | 67 answers |
| dyspeptic | 67 answers |
| misanthropic | 67 answers |
| splenetic | 67 answers |
| ALIENATED | 67 answers |
| Ribald | 68 answers |
| hypercritical | 68 answers |
| antisocial | 68 answers |
| sneering | 68 answers |
| whining | 68 answers |
| GROUCHY | 69 answers |
| Disparaging | 69 answers |
| condescending | 69 answers |
| inhospitable | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
EINIVD
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with CONTUMELIOUS (5)
Nay more, when a human lady upraised the contumelious whip against the very dame who had been so cruelly misusing him, my little great-heart gave but one hoarse cry and fell upon the tyrant tooth and nail.
The glancing graver swerved aside, Fast flowed the artist’s vital tide! And now the apologetic bard Demands indulgence for his pard! [Picture: Man on bridge] VI THE ANGLER AND THE CLOWN The echoing bridge you here may see, The pouring lynn, the waving tree, The eager angler fresh from town— Above, the contumelious clown.
But if he sack fair Athens And take our goodly aged men by th’ beards, Giving our holy virgins to the stain Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brained war, Then let him know, and tell him Timon speaks it, In pity of our aged and our youth, I cannot choose but tell him that I care not; And—let him take’t at worst—for their knives care not While you have throats to answer.
Perhaps the poetic temperament is more liable to such morbid biases, influxes of imaginative crotchet, and mere folly that cannot be cured? Friedrich Wilhelm never would or could dismount from his Hobby: but he rode him under much sorrow henceforth; under showers of anger and ridicule;--contumelious words and procedures, as it were SAXA ET FAECES, battering round him, to a heavy extent; the rider a victim of Tragedy and Farce both at once.
And he would skim through them all till he found the lines in which he himself was maligned, and then, with sore heart and irritated nerves, would pause over every contumelious word.
Quotes with CONTUMELIOUS (1)
To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand