Opprobrious vs Contumelious - What's the difference?
opprobrious | contumelious | Related terms |
(archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful.
* 1879 ,
Opprobrious is a related term of contumelious.
As adjectives the difference between opprobrious and contumelious
is that opprobrious is of or relating to opprobrium while contumelious is (archaic|literary) rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful.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.
