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"contumely" Definitions
  1. harsh language or treatment arising from haughtiness and contempt

24 Sentences With "contumely"

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He's lost the Bozo look as president but not the contumely.
He prints plenty of contumely — mostly snobbish disapproval from Eastern visitors — about his hometown.
He obviously timed this bit of contumely so that any rulings on appeals would be unlikely before this summer's voting.
That prompted a wave of international support for the site and contumely for the bank as an enemy of free speech.
Streams of contumely are directed at a newspaper (you are reading it) that Kramer calls The New York Truth for being slow off the mark in covering AIDS.
And might we consider whether some of the contumely aimed at Kelly has something to do with her being a woman, and perhaps especially a woman who embraced the Fox house brand of "pretty blonde" for so long?
With his penchant for contumely and tit-for-tat escalation, Trump might be the game changer that shakes things up in Africa and disrupts corrupt political regimes that have quietly survived and thrived under Obama's two terms in office.
She doesn't even bother describing her reaction to the ticker of contumely that's whirred above her head for most of her adult life, though she does write about how "incredibly uncomfortable" it was to be stalked on stage by Trump during the second presidential debate.
They did not deliberately set out to provoke moral crises and confessions of murder, even in the most benighted of the countries they visited, but they certainly hoped that the tragedy's celebrated interrogation of social and psychological ills — "Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, / The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, / The insolence of office" — would have some beneficial influence.
To die,—to sleep;—To sleep: perchance to dream:—ay, there's the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause: there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life;For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay,The insolence of office, and the spurnsThat patient merit of the unworthy takes,When he himself might his quietus makeWith a bare bodkin?
And on and on with the whips and the scorns of time and the contumely and the fardels and the blah blah blah.
Iniuria ("outrage", "contumely") was a delict in Roman law for the outrage, or affront, caused by contumelious action (whether in the form of words or deeds) taken against another person.
9, at Trove and predicted that "the quality of the Australian press will rise simply because his vituperation and contumely will have been excised from it."Tadros, Edmund. "Keating monsters McGuinness on eve of funeral." The Sydney Morning Herald, 31 January 2008.
Joseph ha-Kohen records this incident, and adds that later Cantori was found assassinated in a street of Cremona, and was buried "behind the board" in the Jewish cemetery of that city as a mark of contumely. According to another source quoted by J. Wolf, Cantori was a convert to Christianity.
Moore casts Stevens as an explorer of the exotic who takes refuge in a "riot of gorgeousness". She adds that although "Mr. Stevens is never inadvertently crude, one is conscious...of a deliberate bearishness—a shadow of acrimonious, unprovoked contumely."Axelrod and Deese, p. 4 Stevens seems to admit as much in "The Weeping Burgher".
His contract was not renewed when it fell due in 1901. Ives resigned and moved to Victoria. His farewell speech, which was largely boycotted by academic staff, but well received by students, poured contumely on the Chancellor, Sir Samuel Way, and his "henchman" Dr. W. Barlow, the Vice-Chancellor. He was vindicated in some of the criticisms that were levelled against him.
This unique love is echoed also in the liturgy (see Ahabah Rabbah). To be a true "lover of God," however, means "to receive offense, and resent not; to hear words of contumely, and answer not; to act merely from love, and rejoice even in trials as tests of pure love" (Shab. 88b; Soṭah 31a; comp. Rom. viii. 28).LOVE. JewishEncyclopedia.com. Retrieved on 2014-05-09.
The publication of his Memoirs in 1824 changed public opinion somewhat in his favor, and he was honored with a dinner in Boston on May 30, 1825.See , p. 366. That June, the Marquis de Lafayette visited him and declared, "We both have suffered contumely and reproach; but our characters are vindicated; let us forgive our enemies and die in Christian love and peace with all mankind."See , p. 369.
In the 1890s the > political orientations of these two organizations flipped, with the > Republican Party becoming the voice of solid currency and the interests of > domestic manufacturers while the Democratic Party gradually became the voice > of the organized labor movement. and, of course, had to go into politics. I > incurred thereby the hate and contumely of many of my former army comrades, > neighbors, and the Ku Klux Klan. My political career was full of excitement > and danger.
Harrison was a firm advocate for separation of Church and State, taxation of religious organizations, and teaching evolution in schools. He said that Caucasians were more like apes than black people, having straight hair and fair skin. He also famously remarked, "Show me a population that is deeply religious, and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, contumely and the gibbet, content to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the waters of affliction." In 1907 Harrison obtained a job at the United States Post Office.
Instead, he had kept him at the farthest > remove possible, in disgrace and contumely, and had suffered him to be held > a sort of prisoner in marshy and sickly regions. Now, however, he summoned > him to his palace with marks of esteem and friendship. There, in secret > conference, they strove to allay their mutual suspicions at the expense of > their friends, by laying the blame upon them. One of these was Metrodorus of > Scepsis, a man of agreeable speech and wide learning, who enjoyed the > friendship of Mithridates in such a high degree that he was called the > king's father.
On September 23, 1918, Shiplacoff was indicted for three counts of violation of the so-called Espionage Act for a speech against American intervention in Russia made in the Bronx 10 days previously. The first count charged that Shiplacoff "willfully, knowingly, and feloniously uttered and published disloyal, scurrilous, and abusive language about the military and naval forces of the United States, namely the armed forces of the United States now operating in Siberia". The second count charged that his words were "intended to bring [those forces] into contempt, scorn, contumely, and disrepute". The third count charged that his speech was intended to incite and encourage resistance to American forces.
In 1351, in a similar outbreak of anti-clerical fake monasticism in the area, another group of pseudo-monks—describing themselves as an "order of hermits"—occurred in Townstal. The men "claimed power by a special papal privilege to hear confession and offer the sacraments" without Grandisson's permission, or, indeed, any theological training whatsoever. Exeter and its theatre would seem to have been a focus for sociopathic behaviour, and in 1353 Grandisson issued an order to close down a performance called Ludum Noxium, a satire against the city's cloth- dressing (textile finishing) industry, which was causing disturbance. Performed by their rivals the leather sellers, Grandisson condemned their play as being composed "in contumely and approbrium" (i.e.
To dye to sleepe, > To sleep, perchance to Dream; I, there's the rub, > For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come, > When we haue ſhufflel'd off this mortall coile, > Muſt giue us pause. There's the respect > That makes Calamity of long life: > For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time, > The Oppreſſors wrong, the poore mans Contumely, > The pangs of diſpriz'd Loue, the Lawes delay, > The inſolence of Office, and the Spurnes > That patient merit of the unworthy takes, > When he himſelfe might his Quietus make > With a bare Bodkin? Who would theſe Fardles beare > To grunt and ſweat vnder a weary life, > But that the dread of ſomething after death, > The vndiſcouered Countrey, from whoſe Borne > No Traueller returnes, Puzels the will, > And makes vs rather beare those illes we haue, > Then flye to others that we know not of. > Thus Conſcience does make Cowards of vs all, > And thus the Natiue hew of Resolution > Is ſicklied o're, with the pale caſt of Thought, > And enterprizes of great pith and moment, > With this regard their Currants turne away, > And looſe the name of Action.

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