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Contumelious vs Discreditable - What's the difference?

contumelious | discreditable | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between contumelious and discreditable

is that contumelious is rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful while discreditable is able to be discredited.

contumelious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful.
  • * 1879 ,
    • The pad would not stay on Modestine’s back for half a moment. I returned it to its maker, with whom I had so contumelious a passage that the street outside was crowded from wall to wall with gossips looking on and listening.

    Synonyms

    * (rudely contemptuous) disdainful, insolent

    Related terms

    * contumeliousness * contumeliously * contumely

    discreditable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Able to be discredited.
  • Low, mean, bringing discredit.