| 单词 | contumelious |
| 例句 | We behave in contumelious disregard of most elements of law when push comes to shove.” Australian Premier Seeks to Slow Tide of Refugees 2013-07-04T00:21:54Z Was she, after the rebuffs, after the scornful and contumelious slight which M. de Vlaye had put upon her, willing still to seek him, willing still to be in his power? The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z The gall-bladder is for us the chief swimming-bladder and Montgolfier; and the filling of it costs us nothing but a contumelious word or two from some bystander. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z It would not do for Yankelé to circulate contumelious reports of them among his kin. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z He who with delight hears idle discourse or contumelious words, makes his ear a gate of death to himself. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z At the same time he will not be governed by brute force, and under oppression or contumelious treatment he would abandon the plains, retire to the mountains, and lead a predatory life. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z The gall bladder is for us the chief swimming-bladder and Montgolfier; and the filling of it costs us nothing but a contumelious word or two from some bystander. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z One of Zadig's greatest mortifications was his being obliged to wear that green armor which had exposed him to such contumelious treatment. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z “The evidence supports a conclusion that iiNet demonstrated a dismissive and, indeed, contumelious, attitude to the complaints of infringement,” Judge Arthur Emmett wrote. Hollywood Studios Lose Appeal on Australian Piracy Lawsuit 2011-02-24T06:38:39Z Example: To utter the name of our Lord in a contumelious way signifies that one regards Him as of no account. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z It is the most contumelious, the most astounding attack which has ever been made upon me. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z I have held that hard luck, frowning fate, or contumelious circumstances have conspired to hold these natural-born stars down and prevent their names from being chiseled on the tablet of fame. Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager Yet oft his courtesies are smoother wrongs; Pride brandishes the favours He confers, And contumelious his humanity: What then his vengeance? Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes He slid from his greatcoat, a black one with an astrakan collar and bought in three payments, and inclined closer to his wife, a contumelious quirk on his lips. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole Hence the danger of contumelious reprimands given by superiors. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z There it had such contumelious greeting, that it was speedily dropped. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) It is true they might have given us tails to the jacket,” continued I soliloquising, as a young vagabond who passed, hazarded a contumelious remark regarding the symmetry of my nether person. Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 It was a day without a breath of wind, such as alternate in the archipelago with days of contumelious breezes. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) The echoing bridge you here may see, The pouring lynn, the waving tree, The eager angler fresh from town— Above, the contumelious clown. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers The defamer has some respect for his enemy, for he fears to face him and resorts to undermining, but the contumelious sinner despises his enemy and shows it by insulting him to his face. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z He had been in the service of the Lord Fleming, the governor, but on account of contumelious usage had quitted it, and had been the contriver of the scheme. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters Yes, that's a fitting name, I guess, For as stout a soul as Publius Cornelius; And now, probably, there's no man will not dub you "noblest Roman," Though you once had many a foeman contumelious. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 3, 1890. It was the old spite bursting forth, sharpened by Canning’s behaviour to him in forming his Administration, which, if it was not contumelious, certainly was not courteous. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II Dear Editor: Being a passionate admirer of Dr. Breuer and his writings, I cannot permit the contumelious, unfounded aggression of one George K. Addison to go on unconfuted. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 Indeed, derision is a more serious injury than contumely, for the contumelious person treats the evil of his neighbor as something serious, whereas the derider makes sport of it and is thus more insulting. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z The braves strode by her in sullen silence, eloquently impressing their contumelious hauteur. Trail Tales Men of Rome, Sons of Holy Church, behold the contumelious mark we set upon our fellow-men, so that every ruffian may spit upon them. Dreamers of the Ghetto De Spain added an impatient, 90 not to say contumelious exclamation concerning the substance of Lefever’s talk. Nan of Music Mountain Even in his massy and elaborate Dictionary he had, with a strange want of taste and judgment, inserted bitter and contumelious reflections on the Whig party. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History They were always visited, to be sure, by the pack, at some unexpected and indeterminable moment, but treated always with a contumelious scorn which was doubtless all that such clumsy tactics merited. Kings in Exile On the other hand, to refuse a requisition made by the Throne was counted contumelious and liable to punishment. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era If I had been bred in the east, I should be tempted to say it was a contumelious responsibility. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice He himself complains that contumelious epithets were levelled at the doctrine and its author. Fathers of Biology Had he, though blindly contumelious, brought Rheum to kind eyes, a sting to human thought, Convulsion to a mouth of many years? Endymion A Poetic Romance He had even ventured to speak in contumelious terms of the reverend Rector of York himself, whom he had stigmatized as "a lying little fool of a renegade Presbyterian." The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion This already sufficiently contumelious act was supplemented by a request from the Bakufu that the Imperial Court should send to Yedo the high secretary and the chief of the Household. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Her contumelious treatment of him at Portsmouth rankled; but he had satisfied himself that it was all his fault. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! I returned it to its maker, with whom I had so contumelious a passage that the street outside was crowded from wall to wall with gossips looking on and listening. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Bat, contumelious now no longer, dashed wildly away. The Ape, the Idiot & Other People Thou art very contumelious, and deservest to be rolled in the kennel. Jacob Faithful His coarseness is everywhere redeemed by a genuine feeling for the contumelious buffets to which weakness is exposed. An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times Cappel speedily prepared a second edition of his work, in which, besides replying to the arguments of his opponent, and fortifying his position with new ones, he retorted his contumelious epithets with interest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" He swore it was a conspiracy; and declared that now he had borne enough of such contumelious conduct; he should soon bring me into subjection. The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems Usage the most contumelious she had hitherto borne with silent indignation. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell The Protestants, under their protecting immunity, were a belated and contumelious remnant of quite another epoch. Lectures on Modern history An accusation of immorality in oneself or in one's parents is contumelious in a high degree. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals A thirst for vengeance, after all they had endured at the hands of the contumelious foe, carried them away. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs He heard the contumelious expression of the Pharisee, “this Publican.” Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series A thousand acts Illustrious, both by well-concerted plans And prudent disposition of the host Ulysses hath achieved, but this by far330 Transcends his former praise, that he hath quell'd Such contumelious rhetoric profuse. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper Oh, the ceaseless offering of this sin-stained body, the contumelious jeers she met, the vain search through streets and avenues this wild night, for the blind lust that would give her shelter and food! The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel His speeches sunk below par along with himself; and the pedler, in his contumelious treatment of the disconsolate jurist, simply obeyed and indicated the direction of the popular opinion. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia She walked through life, curling a contumelious lip, unshaken by the passions, aloof from the struggles, high above the emotions that stir and beset the creatures of the dust. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs These two States have often been censured for the contumelious manner in which they have sometimes sought to repel each other's arguments. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 As yet, the latter gentleman had heard nothing of the contumelious dismissal of Miss Herbert; but the old squire was not ignorant of the felonious abduction of the priest. Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Another and a more contumelious laugh announced this failure. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Had not Louis befriended the contumelious neighbour of Charles, only to learn that his Burgundian cousin could and would deal summarily with all protests against his authority among the lesser folk on Netherland territory? Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Certainly, in the matter of contumelious blasphemies, of sacrilegious atrocities, and sensual excitation, this priest may seem to have exceeded the limits, to be almost unique. Là-bas It would have liked him well to bring this contumelious varlet to his knees. Helmet of Navarre Then taking the warm blood into the palms of their hands, they drank it up, using the most contumelious expressions against the Christians. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Every attempt was unavailing; he shot through their fingers as though they had been greased, and a loud and contumelious laugh was the only reward of their exertions. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Louis XIV. having had it measured, and finding that he had judged rightly, treated Louvois in a contumelious manner before his whole court. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831 If you are wise you will speak to him in the interrogative mood exclusively; and you will treat his answers with contumelious laughter or disdainful silence. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series The news of Deventer had not yet arrived, and the queen subjected them to a furious and contumelious harangue, and advised them to make peace with Philip. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History I hear no intrigue imputed to him, no contumelious treatment of rivals. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style When, in the exultant consciousness of personal superiority, as well as the strength of his cause, he trampled upon his opponents, there was nothing coarse, nothing virulent, nothing contumelious, nothing ungenerous in his triumph. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 476, February 12, 1831 Not perhaps said in words, but expressed as clearly by the warlike angle of an arm, the contumelious hitch of a shoulder, or the scornful sweep of an adverse skirt. Red Axe Man hard of heart to Man! ... of horrid things Most horrid; midst stupendous highly strange: Yet oft his courtesies are smoother wrongs; Pride brandishes the favours he confers, And contumelious his Humanity. An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects Sennit suppressed his wrath, therefore; though I make no doubt the resentment he felt at the contumelious manner of my mate, had no little influence on what subsequently occurred. Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" Had such an anatomical absurdity been reconcilable with the structure of the human frame, it is possible Miss Bruce might have treated this important organ in the contumelious manner suggested. M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." He never gave contumelious language in his anger, nor inflicted punishment with reproach. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans I returned it to its maker, with whom I had so contumelious a passage that the street outside was crowded from wall to wall with gossips looking on and listening. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes And she!—Has she been less contumelious, less annoyant, less tormenting?—His advocate, his abettor, his adulator, with me only she was scrupulous and severe. Anna St. Ives I am very much offended at his scandalizing words and contumelious obloquy. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 The wife of Arminius brought forth a male child, and the boy was brought up at Ravenna; his unhappy conflicts afterwards, with the contumelious insults of fortune, will be remembered in their place. The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola It is commonly said that public bodies are most insulting and contumelious to a good man, when they are puffed up with prosperity and success. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans Western Australia had met its contumelious detractors with silence; and the false statements were therefore looked upon as admitted and undeniable. The Bushman — Life in a New Country Baron Huddleston simply held the Christmas Number of the Freethinker up in Court, and declared that no sane man could deny that it was a blasphemous libel—a contumelious reproach on our Blessed Savior. Prisoner for Blasphemy Later on the lady in the case paused to offer to me some contumelious if impersonal reflections upon love at first sight, which she stigmatized as a superstition unworthy of the consideration of serious minds. From a Bench in Our Square Then came his capture, his contumelious march through the gloomy streets, his taste of an unknown prison, his taste of poppied wine, and then sleep. If I Were King And o' course—bein' ignorant, same as me, an' hot-headed, an' eager—you treat that contumelious an' tip the Masai the office to go to hell. The Ivory Trail With scoffs and scorns, and contumelious taunts, In open market-place produced they me, To be a public spectacle to all. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays Parson Downs, though some might reckon him as being somewhat contumelious in his manner of leaving the tobacco-cutting, yet was not so when there was anything to be gained by his service. The Heart's Highway This is one reason why the empty critic is usually contumelious and flippant, the competent one as generally equitable and humane. Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Although I curled a contumelious lip, I smarted under the indignity. Simon the Jester Whereupon Andreuola, kindling with scorn, waxed exceeding brave, and defended herself with a virile energy, and with high and contumelious words drove him from her. The Decameron, Volume I He wanted to gather up again the contumelious writings, but Marie Antoinette held his hand back. Marie Antoinette and Her Son For one moment he hesitated; then he seemed to see the contumelious sneer of the African juggler of cards; and then he walked straight to the green door and knocked against it. The Four Million His absence drew on him many contumelious censures; nor have even his eulogists been able to find any explanation of it which raises his character. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 She displayed a frown and a contumelious lip, and endeavored to radiate an aura of disagreeableness and tragedy. Waifs and Strays Part 1 The wrong was committed hastily, and with contumelious levity. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Even in his massy and elaborate Dictionary, he had, with a strange want of taste and judgment, inserted bitter and contumelious reflections on the Whig party. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 And he would skim through them all till he found the lines in which he himself was maligned, and then, with sore heart and irritated nerves, would pause over every contumelious word. The Prime Minister He dares not calm his contumelious spirit, Nor cease to be an arrogant controller, Though Suffolk dare him twenty thousand times. King Henry VI, Part 2 |
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