Con`tu*me"li*ous [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.
© Webster 1913.