| How could I remain impenitent and unsubmissive when for my faults an innocent man stood exposed in contumely to the public gaze? |
| You're never going to please everybody, but my feeling is there seems to have been less contumely than might have been expected, because we have taken people with us. |
| One finds in Wolcot's mock-epic a shower of contumely constantly trained upon epic. |
| True, Marx mentions a few authors by name, but only to pour heavily Teutonic scorn and contumely upon them. |
| For some time, he did not make a single convert, and gained nothing but contumely and abuse. |
| It had patriotically offered its plant and services to the War Office, and had been repulsed with contumely and ignominy. |
