Contumelious vs Scornful - What's the difference?
contumelious | scornful | Related terms |
(archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful.
* 1879 ,
Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous.
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful . "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
Contumelious is a related term of scornful.
As adjectives the difference between contumelious and scornful
is that contumelious is (archaic|literary) rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful while scornful is showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous.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.
