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• s  arrogantly insolent

• Hardly a day passed without a contumelious attack.
• All Kellys, wherever they are, will give thanks that a MacManus of Miami has risen to refute the charge that one of the contumelious clan of Kelly could ever be merely cantankerous.
• The appeal of this contumelious parlor rat race, Author Brady suggests, is that it permits respectable citizens to cheat and browbeat with impunity as they seek to amass paper .