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Contumelious vs Malicious - What's the difference?

contumelious | malicious |

As adjectives the difference between contumelious and malicious

is that contumelious is (archaic|literary) rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful while malicious is of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite.

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

    malicious

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
  • spiteful and deliberately harmful
    • He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.

    Synonyms

    * malevolent * evil * See also

    Derived terms

    * maliciously * maliciousness * malicious mischief