Contumelious vs Shameful - What's the difference?
contumelious | shameful | Related terms |
(archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful.
* 1879 ,
Contumelious is a related term of shameful.
As adjectives the difference between contumelious and shameful
is that contumelious is (archaic|literary) rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful while shameful is causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful.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.
