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How to use contumely in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word contumely? Here are some examples.

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One finds in Wolcot's mock-epic a shower of contumely constantly trained upon epic.
True, Marx mentions a few authors by name, but only to pour heavily Teutonic scorn and contumely upon them.
For anyone who wishes to learn how the cycle of contumely and pardon — or simple forgetfulness — spins in England, note the consequence.
You're never going to please everybody, but my feeling is there seems to have been less contumely than might have been expected, because we have taken people with us.
But, after 2004, I no longer enjoyed the game, mainly because the Rumsfeldian contumely, the shenanigans of ideologues, and the short-term memories of clownish officials were all getting people killed in a mindless war.
She had been subjected to contumely and cross-questoning and ill-usage through the whole evening.
I could think of no words adequate to the occasion. So I belched. Not out of contumely, you understand. It was a sympathetic belch, a belch of brotherhood.
Hannibal had no interest in treating with this commission, and treated it with contumely, hoping that it would drive the commission to declare war.
Examples from Classical Literature
We shall not be cast aside in contumely and unblest after all we have suffered.
How could I remain impenitent and unsubmissive when for my faults an innocent man stood exposed in contumely to the public gaze?
The language of contumely was exhausted in vain efforts to describe his baseness.
Garrison appealed to the master's heirs for redress, but was repelled with contumely.
It had patriotically offered its plant and services to the War Office, and had been repulsed with contumely and ignominy.
For some time, he did not make a single convert, and gained nothing but contumely and abuse.
This was all he had to offer to the Father in expiation of his contumely and refractoriness, his errors and his falls.
No more should the gallant beast he had bred be seized with contumely in the market-place.
He now supported it, though it requited his support with contumely.
Ah Chun called for the manager and was treated with contumely.
Forbes felt a ribaldry in the whole situation, an intolerable contumely.
Poverty, contumely, indignities of all sorts, met him wherever he turned.
Besides, what do you mean, by words of contumely from my lips?
His requests and his warnings were alike treated with contumely.
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