Con·tu·me·li·ous a.
1. Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.
Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. --Shak.
Curving a contumelious lip. --Tennyson.
2. Shameful; disgraceful. [Obs.]
-- Con*tu*me*li*ous*ly, adv. -- Con*tu*me*li*ous*ness, n.
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contumeliously
adv : without respect; in a disdainful manner; "she spoke of him
contemptuously" [syn: contemptuously, disdainfully,
scornfully, showing contempt]