contumelious as an adjective: - 1
contumelious
adjective
1 contumelious
Arrogantly insolent.
Roget 885:
insolent,
haughty,
arrogant,
imperious,
magisterial,
dictatorial,
arbitrary;
high-handed,
high and mighty;
contumelious,
supercilious,
overbearing,
intolerant,
domineering,
overweening,
high-flown.
flippant,
pert,
fresh [U.S.],
cavalier,
saucy,
forward,
impertinent,
malapert.
precocious,
assuming,
would-be,
bumptious.
bluff;
brazen,
shameless,
aweless,
unblushing†,
unabashed;
brazen,
boldfaced-,
barefaced-,
brazen-faced;
dead to shame,
lost to shame.
impudent,
audacious,
presumptuous,
free and easy,
devil-may-care,
rollicking;
jaunty,
janty†;
roistering,
blustering,
hectoring,
swaggering,
vaporing;
thrasonic,
fire eating,
full of sound and fury"
[Macbeth].
... show more
Roget 930:
contemptuous;
disdainful,
scornful;
withering,
contumelious,
supercilious,
cynical,
haughty,
bumptious,
cavalier;
derisive.
contemptible,
despicable;
pitiable;
pitiful
etc.
(unimportant)
643;
despised
etc.
v.;
downtrodden;
unenvied†.
unrespectable
(unworthy)
874.
... show more
Roget 895:
discourteous,
uncourteous†;
uncourtly†;
ill-bred,
ill-mannered,
ill-behaved,
ill-conditioned;
unbred;
unmannerly,
unmannered;
impolite,
unpolite†;
unpolished,
uncivilized,
ungenteel;
ungentleman-like,
ungentlemanly;
unladylike;
blackguard;
vulgar
etc.
851;
dedecorous†;
foul-mouthed foul-spoken;
abusive.
uncivil,
ungracious,
unceremonious;
cool;
pert,
forward,
obtrusive,
impudent,
rude,
saucy,
precocious.
repulsive;
uncomplaisant†,
unaccommodating,
unneighborly,
ungallant;
inaffable†;
ungentle,
ungainly;
rough,
rugged,
bluff,
blunt,
gruff;
churlish,
boorish,
bearish;
brutal,
brusque;
stern,
harsh,
austere;
cavalier.
taint,
sour,
crabbed,
sharp,
short,
trenchant,
sarcastic,
biting,
doggish,
caustic,
virulent,
bitter,
acrimonious,
venomous,
contumelious;
snarling
etc.
v.;
surly,
surly as a bear;
perverse;
grim,
sullen
etc.
901.1;
peevish
etc.
(irascible)
901.
untactful,
impolitic,
undiplomatic;
artless
etc.
703;
... show more
Roget 929:
disrespectful;
aweless,
irreverent;
disparaging
etc.
934;
insulting
etc.
v.;
supercilious,
contemptuous,
patronizing
etc.
(scornful)
930;
rude,
derisive,
sarcastic;
scurrile,
scurrilous;
contumelious.
unrespected†,
unworshiped†,
unenvied†,
unsaluted†;
unregarded†,
disregarded.
... show more
Moby thesaurus: Rabelaisian, abusive, arrogant, atrocious, audacious, back-biting, backhand, backhanded, belittling, bitchy, blasphemous, bold, brazen, bumptious, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, cavalier, censorious, clannish, cliquish, cold, comminatory, contemptuous, cool, critical, cursing, damnatory, defamatory, degrading, denunciatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detractory, dirty, disdainful, dismissive, disparaging, dysphemistic, epithetic, exclusive, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, familiar, forward, foul, fulminatory, haughty, hubristic, humiliating, impertinent, imprecatory, impudent, insolent, insulting, invective, left-handed, libelous, maledictory, minimizing, obscene, obtrusive, offensive, opprobrious, outrageous, overpresumptuous, overweening, pejorative, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, profane, pushy, railing, raw, ribald, ridiculing, risque, saucy, scandalous, scatologic, scolding, scornful, scurrile, scurrilous, severe, slanderous, slighting, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, truculent, unspeakable, uppish, uppity, vile, vilifying, vituperative, withering ... show more.
debug info: 0.0388