| It would have liked him well to bring this contumelious varlet to his knees. |
| It wasn't his fault that he liked you more than a compatriot and did a truly contumelious act out of selfish passionate feelings towards you. |
| That cannot be considered a deliberate or contumelious delay undertaken by one litigant in an attempt to thwart the rights of an opposing litigant. |
| If I had been bred in the east, I should be tempted to say it was a contumelious responsibility. |
| Although I curled a contumelious lip, I smarted under the indignity. |
| I weep and cry out, I have been a most contumelious offender. |
