资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Contumelious \Con`tu*me"li*ous\ (?or ?; 106), a. [L.
contumeliosus.]
1. Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent;
disdainful.
Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. --Shak.
Curving a contumelious lip. --Tennyson.
2. Shameful; disgraceful. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. --
{Con`tu*me"li*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Con`tu*me"li*ous*ness}, n.
资料来源 : WordNet®
contumeliously
adv : without respect; in a disdainful manner; "she spoke of him
contemptuously" [syn: {contemptuously}, {disdainfully},
{scornfully}, {showing contempt}]