Crossword-Solution: CONTUMELY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contumely | n. | Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace. |
We have 39 clues for the answer “CONTUMELY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| INSOLENT language | 1 answer |
| Contemptuous behaviour | 1 answer |
| reproachful language | 3 answers |
| Billingsgate | 3 answers |
| INSULTING language | 12 answers |
| superbity | 19 answers |
| Morgue | 20 answers |
| hubris | 20 answers |
| Hauteur | 23 answers |
| forwardness | 24 answers |
| complacency | 25 answers |
| Haughtiness | 25 answers |
| Narcissism | 27 answers |
| Egoism | 27 answers |
| despite | 38 answers |
| Sneer? | 41 answers |
| loftiness | 41 answers |
| BRASS ___ | 42 answers |
| Effrontery | 45 answers |
| Barb | 46 answers |
| boldness | 46 answers |
| Chutzpah | 47 answers |
| Disrespect | 48 answers |
| Aspersion | 48 answers |
| vituperation | 48 answers |
| rudeness | 49 answers |
| Conceit | 50 answers |
| Scorn | 50 answers |
| Disdain | 55 answers |
| Obloquy | 56 answers |
| invective | 61 answers |
| Indignity | 65 answers |
| Contempt | 65 answers |
| Cheek | 66 answers |
| discourtesy | 73 answers |
| Certainty | 75 answers |
| Ridicule | 81 answers |
| Insult | 84 answers |
| Slight | 101 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CONTUMELY (5)
There’s the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The law’s delay, and the quietus which his pangs might take.
That a woman should bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire over any realm, nation, or city, he tells us, is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, and a subversion of good order.
Surely it were worth while to try some other weapon than scorn and contumely and hard words upon people of our common race,--the human race, which is bigger and broader than Celt or Saxon, barbarian or Greek, Jew or Gentile, black or white; for we are all children of a common Father, forget it as we may, and each one of us is in some measure his brother's keeper.
Notable among his possessions was one which he should, from all accounts, dearly have prized, but which there are indications he treated with some contumely.
Women are made like the potter’s vessels--either for worship or contumely, and are withal fragile vessels.
Quotes with CONTUMELY (3)
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may …
The criminals who, in the face of contumely, hatred or violence, have led the world to a higher standard and brought humanity to a diviner order, have so loved truth and righteousness as to defy the law, and in every age these men have met the life of outcasts, and the death of felons. Whatever may be said of the necessity of government to protect itself, no one can believe that any human being merits punishment for following his own highest ideal. Punishment can only be in a…
Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity. On Olympus she would have done well with a little preparation. She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make not quite a model woman. Had it been possible for the earth and mankind to be entirely in her grasp for a while, she had handled the distaff, the spindle, and the shears at her own free will, few in the world would have noticed the change of government. There would have been the…