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  1. criticisms or insults that show a lack of respect: She was indifferent to praise and contumely alike. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Insults & abuse. abusive. abusively. backhanded compliment. brickbat. cut (someone) to the quick idiom.

  2. : harsh language or treatment arising from haughtiness and contempt. also : an instance of such language or treatment. Did you know? Geoffrey Chaucer was writing about the sin of contumelie, as it was spelled in Middle English, back in the late 1300s.

  3. Contumely definition: insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.. See examples of CONTUMELY used in a sentence.

  4. Contumely is an old-fashioned term that means "nasty, insulting speech," like the contumely heaped on the opposing team by a home team's fans. Don't be led astray by that -ly ending: contumely is a noun, not an adverb.

  5. 2 meanings: 1. scornful or insulting language or behaviour 2. a humiliating or scornful insult.... Click for more definitions.

  6. An act that offends a person's sense of pride or dignity: affront, despite, indignity, insult, offense, outrage, slight. slap in the face. 2. Harsh, often insulting language: abuse, billingsgate, invective, obloquy, railing, revilement, reviling, scurrility, scurrilousness, vituperation.

  7. criticisms or insults that show a lack of respect: She was indifferent to praise and contumely alike. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Insults & abuse. abusive. abusively. backhanded compliment. brickbat. cut (someone) to the quick idiom.