Definition for Contumely:

• Rude, haughty, and scornful abuse or reproach; insolence; contemptnous language or treatment. See Contumacy.

Synonyms for Contumely:

• n.

  •
  • despite,
  • offense,
  • slight,
  • outrage,
  • attack.
  •communication (noun)
  • contumely,
  • vilification.
  •contempt (noun)
  • hatred,
  • Despisement,
  • neglect.
  •derision (noun)
  • object ridicule,
  • parting shots,
  • scoffings,
  • pilgarlics,
  • backhanded compliments.
  •discourtesy (noun)
  • brusqueness,
  • Inurbanity,
  • impoliteness.
  •disdain (noun)
  • snobbishnesses,
  • superbities.
  •disgrace (noun)
  • dis favor,
  • de-basing,
  • dis-honors,
  • dis-grace,
  • de-basement,
  • dis graces,
  • de gradations,
  • de-basements,
  • dis favors,
  • de basing,
  • dis-repute,
  • de basements,
  • dis-credit,
  • dis grace,
  • dis respect,
  • dis honor,
  • dis-respect,
  • de-gradations,
  • dis honors,
  • dis-favors,
  • in-gloriousness,
  • de gradation,
  • dis-credits,
  • disbarments,
  • in gloriousness,
  • dis credit,
  • dis reputes,
  • in gloriousnesses,
  • dis-respects,
  • dis credits,
  • in-gloriousnesses,
  • de-gradation,
  • dis-honor,
  • de basement,
  • dis respects,
  • dis-reputes,
  • ingloriousnesses,
  • dis-favor,
  • debasings,
  • humblings,
  • dis repute,
  • dis-graces.
  •disparagement (noun)
  • backstabbings,
  • de rogation,
  • under-estimation,
  • de rogations,
  • under-estimations,
  • under estimations,
  • de-rogation,
  • de-rogations,
  • under estimation.
  •disrespect (noun)
  • discourtesy.
  •ill repute (noun)
  • bad odors.
  •presumption (noun)
  • pre-sumptuousnesses,
  • pre sumptuousness,
  • pre-sumptuousness,
  • pre sumptuousnesses.
  •pride (noun)
  • proud flesh,
  • cockiness,
  • egoisms,
  • self-love,
  • pragmatism,
  • big-headedness,
  • smugness,
  • immodesties,
  • over-confidence,
  • immodesty,
  • Self-exaltation.
  •revilement (noun)
  • verbal abuse.
  •scorn (noun)
  • teasings,
  • jeerings,
  • tauntings,
  • scornfulnesses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • billingsgate.
  •
  • railing,
  • vituperation.
  •
  • obloquy.
  •censure
  • blame.

Antonyms for Contumely:

• n.

  • insult
    admiration, approval, praise, compliment, respect, politeness, flattery, humility, love.

Contumely Sentence Examples:

• I say the satisfaction, for, to own the truth, I was eager to witness the effect that would be made on the monikin sensibilities, when he came to speak of my own discernment in detecting their real characters beneath the contumely and disgrace in which it had been my good fortune to find them, the promptitude with which I had stepped forward to their relief, and the liberality and courage with which I had furnished the means and encountered the risks that were necessary to restore them to their native land.

• It was there that hunger, and thirst, and disease, and all the contumely that cold - hearted cruelty could bestow, sharpened every pang of death.

Homophones for Contumely:

• conditional, continual, conditionally, connotational, cantonal, centennial.

Hypernym for Contumely:

• n.

  • communication
    invective, vituperation, stinger, billingsgate, vitriol, scurrility, low blow, cut.

Hyponym for Contumely:

• n.

  • communication
    discourtesy, disrespect.