The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contumelious \Con`tu*me"li*ous\ (?or ?; 106), a. [L. contumeliosus.]
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Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.
Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts.
--Shak.Curving a contumelious lip.
--Tennyson. Shameful; disgraceful. [Obs.]
--Dr. H. More. -- Con`tu*me"li*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`tu*me"li*ous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a contumelious manner.
WordNet
adv. without respect; in a disdainful manner; "she spoke of him contemptuously" [syn: contemptuously, disdainfully, scornfully, showing contempt]
Usage examples of "contumeliously".
Antoninus had not taken this care, but had contumeliously killed a brother of that centurion, whom also he daily threatened, yet retained in his bodyguard.
Jos, who would no more have it supposed that his father, Jos Sedley’s father, of the Board of Revenue, was a wine merchant asking for orders, than that he was Jack Ketch, refused the bills with scorn, wrote back contumeliously to the old gentleman, bidding him to mind his own affairs.