Contumelious vs Disgraceful - What's the difference?
contumelious | disgraceful | Related terms |
(archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful.
* 1879 ,
Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
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Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.
Contumelious is a related term of disgraceful.
As adjectives the difference between contumelious and disgraceful
is that contumelious is (archaic|literary) rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful while disgraceful is bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.contumelious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.