contumeliousness
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Contumeliousness — Contumelious Con tu*me li*ous (?or ?; 106), a. [L. contumeliosus.] 1. Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful. [1913 Webster] Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. Shak. [1913 Webster] Curving a contumelious lip.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
contumeliousness — noun The state or quality of being contumelious … Wiktionary
contumeliousness — contumēˈliousness noun • • • Main Entry: ↑contumely … Useful english dictionary
contumely — contumelious /kon tooh mee lee euhs, tyooh /, adj. contumeliously, adv. contumeliousness, n. /kon too meuh lee, tyoo ; keuhn tooh meuh lee, tyooh ; kon teuhm lee, tyoohm, cheuhm/, n., pl. contumelies. 1. insulting display of contempt in words or… … Universalium
contumelious — adjective /ˌkɒn.tjʊˈmiː.li.əs,ˌkɑn.tʊˈmiː.li.əs,ˌkɑn.tjuˈmiː.li.əs/ Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful. The pad would not stay on Modestine’s back for half a moment. I returned it to its maker, with whom I had so… … Wiktionary
disdain — I noun abhorrence, abjuration, abnegation, act of despising, act of discrediting, act of loathing, act of scorning, act of shunning, act of spurning, act of taunting, airs, arrogance, contempt, contemptio, contemptuousness, contumeliousness,… … Law dictionary
disdain — Synonyms and related words: abhor, abjure, airs, antipathetic, antipathy, aristocratic disdain, arrogance, arrogant, audacity, averse, aversion, be above, be contemptuous of, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness, brassiness, bravado,… … Moby Thesaurus
arrogance — n 1. haughtiness, loftiness, hauteur, self importance; presumption, presumptuousness, overconfidence, fatuousness; pride, vanity, vainglory, conceit, snobbery, snobbishness, airs; pomposity, pompousness, egotism, superciliousness, contempt,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
assumption — n 1. supposition, presupposition, premise, presumption; guess, guesswork, conjecture; surmise, inference, deduction, understanding; thesis, hypothesis, theory, postulate, postulation, axiom. 2. taking on or over, assuming, undertaking, adopting,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
hauteur — n haughtiness, arrogance, self importance, presumptuousness, overconfidence, fastuousness; pretentiousness, hoity toity, affectedness, pomposity, pompousness; snobbery, snobbishness, airs, conceit, conceitedness, vaingloriousness, bovarism,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
