In great wrath he swore to take vengeance on the man who had dared to tear up his complaint so contumeliously.
"Legends of the Rhine"
Wilhelm Ruland
One might believe Lucullus thought his money really captive and barbarian, so wantonly and contumeliously did he treat it.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
And that Onomarchus contumeliously answered him, that the field had been a more proper place than this to show his contempt of death.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh