Sentence examples for contumely from inspiring English sources

A small comfort to Mr Balls and a source of alarm to everyone else— is that for all the contumely heaped on his remarks by journalists and opposition politicians, few are saying with any confidence that he was wrong.

Friendship in America is indicated and proved by a steady flow of insult and contumely between friends, who smilingly accuse each other of insanity, depravity, spiritual damnation, duplicity, conspiracy, and the stealing of flowers from the graves of mothers.

With his long Russian nose, he emits a kind of mandarin snottiness — what Woody Allen calls "his superb contumely," adding, "It's supercilious in the way we all wish we had the genius for.

Homer is why Time's story about the Scopes trial began this way: "The pens and tongues of contumely were arrested.

For anyone who wishes to learn how the cycle of contumely and pardon — or simple forgetfulness — spins in England, note the consequence.

By this time, Burgess was dead and Maclean and Philby were safe in Moscow; Blunt, now a septuagenarian retired academic in remission from cancer, was subjected to a contumely magnified by the previous unavailability of his fellow-spies.

But, after 2004, I no longer enjoyed the game, mainly because the Rumsfeldian contumely, the shenanigans of ideologues, and the short-term memories of clownish officials were all getting people killed in a mindless war.

This case is unique in several ways: the witness is being exposed to contumely mainly because of his personal morality, and to a lesser degree because of his offenses against public morality.

Umpires are accustomed to scorn, but seldom does the contumely to which they are routinely subjected reach Shylockian levels.

The choice brought more contumely from fans, who had never heard of him, or feared another Andrea Bargnani, a fragile product of European ball.

But before you heap clods and contumelies on his coffin, you should know that Nigger was more than a word.