Contumelious vs Docile - What's the difference?
contumelious | docile |
(archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful.
* 1879 ,
Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
Ready to accept instruction or direction.
As adjectives the difference between contumelious and docile
is that contumelious is (archaic|literary) rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful while docile is yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.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.
