Sentence examples similar to are contumacious from inspiring English sources

Gates's behavior may have been contumacious, rude, discourteous, name it.

Or are they flat-out contumacious scofflaws?

In a situation in which the record revealed that the contumacious conduct was the product of both lack of self-restraint on the part of the contemnor and a reaction to the excessive zeal and personal animosity of the trial judge, the majority felt that any contempt trial must be held before another judge.

In both criminal and civil contempt proceedings but more commonly in the former a distinction is drawn between contumacious acts that take place in the presence of the court and are labeled direct contempts and those that are committed outside the geographic boundaries of the court and are called indirect, or constructive, contempts.

He argued that the Bible puts its message into the language of the common people "lest the shallow minds of the common people should become confused, obstinate, and contumacious [stubbornly disobedient] in yielding assent to the principal articles that are absolutely matters of faith".

Now that Americans are taught that the war was a noble conflict waged by Lincoln and the forces of light against misguided and contumacious Southerners, it's especially valuable to be reminded that this was far from how all the English saw it at the time.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft, in his July 3 review of "A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War," by Amanda Foreman, asserts that "Americans are taught that the war was a noble conflict waged by Lincoln and the forces of light against misguided and contumacious Southerners".

Roads are being paved.

"Bills are being paid.

Some are being tortured.

Plans are being redrawn.