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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abuse, affront, airs, animadversion, arrogance, aspersion, assailing, assault, assurance, atrocity, attack, audacity, berating, billingsgate, bitter words, blackening, boldness, brickbat, bumptiousness, calumny, clannishness, cliquishness, contempt, contemptuousness, cut, despite, diatribe, disdain, disdainfulness, disparagement, dump, effrontery, enormity, exclusiveness, execration, flout, flouting, gibe, hard words, hardihood, hauteur, hubris, humiliation, indignity, injury, insolence, insult, invective, jawing, jeer, jeering, jeremiad, mock, mockery, obloquy, obtrusiveness, offense, onslaught, opprobrium, outrage, overweening, overweeningness, philippic, presumption, presumptuousness, procacity, pushiness, put-down, rating, reflection, revilement, ridicule, scoff, scorn, scornfulness, screed, scurrility, slap, sniffiness, snobbishness, snootiness, snottiness, sovereign contempt, stricture, superciliousness, taunt, tirade, tongue-lashing, toploftiness, uncomplimentary remark, uppishness, uppityness, vilification, vituperation

Dictionary Results for contumely:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

contumely
    n 1: a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a
         student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse";
         "they yelled insults at the visiting team" [syn: abuse,
         insult, revilement, contumely, vilification]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Contumely \Con"tu*me*ly\, n. [L. contumelia, prob. akin to
   contemnere to despise: cf. OF. contumelie. Cf. Contumacy.]
   Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful
   insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in
   act or speech; disgrace.
   [1913 Webster]

         The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely.
                                                  --Shak.
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         Nothing aggravates tyranny so much as contumely.
                                                  --Burke.
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