contumely

英式音标：['kɒntjʊmɪlɪ]

美式音标：[ˈkɑntuməli, -tju-, -təmli]

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概况：

n. 侮辱；无礼；傲慢

词义：

n.

傲慢；轻侮；侮辱行为；无礼的言行

变形

复数：contumelies

英英释义

contumely[ 'kɔntjumili ]

n.a rude expression intended to offend or hurt

同义词：abuseinsultrevilementvilification

用法：

权威例句

Contumely

Cults, Coercion, and Contumely

Clientage and Contumely: How Group Preferences Foster Dependency and Resentment

Is Continuing Contumely Relative to Mc Leod's Vision and ``Secret Sacred Science, (SSS),'': Contagiously Counterproductive in Scienc...

The proud man's contumely

The Oppressor's Wrong, the Proud Man's Contumely? - KellyJ. M.: Roman Litigation. Pp. viii+176. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966. Cloth...

Orbis contumely [microform] : a collection of poetic texts /

Columnist Curries Contumely Composing Class Collection

Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms:PIECES OF EIGHT: CONFESSION OF A HUMANISTIC NATURALIST

Moving forward by looking back: 'retrospective' clinical studies

同义词：insult,indignity,importance,despite

同根词：contumely,contumelious

英语词源：

contumely

contumely: [14] The idea underlying contumely ‘insolence’ is ‘swelling up’. It comes, via Old French contumelie, from Latin contumēlia ‘insult, reproach’, a compound noun formed from the intensive prefix com- and (probably) tumēre ‘swell’ (source of English tumour). The sense development – from being ‘puffed up’ and ‘angry’, ‘proud’, or ‘stubborn’ through ‘overbearing’ to ‘insulting’ – appears also to be reflected in contumacy ‘insubordination’ [14], whose Latin source contumācia likewise probably came from tumēre.=> contumacy, tumour

contumely (n.)

late 14c., from Old French contumelie, from Latin contumelia "a reproach, insult," probably related to contumax "haughty, stubborn," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + tumere "to swell up" (see tumid).

The unhappy man left his country forever. The howl of contumely followed him across the sea, up the Rhine, over the Alps; it gradually waxed fainter; it died away; those who had raised it began to ask each other, what, after all, was the matter about which they had been so clamorous, and wished to invite back the criminal whom they had just chased from them. [Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Lord Byron," 1877]

造句：

1. Dishonest importers would be able to pocket the VAT collected from customers.

不诚实的进口商将会能够把从顾客那里收取的增值税据为己有。

来自柯林斯例句

2. You have been dishonest with me.

你对我不诚实。

来自柯林斯例句

3. dishonest appropriation of property

以欺骗的手法侵吞财产

来自《权威词典》

4. Beware of dishonest traders in the tourist areas.

在旅游区一定要谨防奸商。

来自《权威词典》

5. The affairs of the nation have been abandoned to dishonest politicians.

治国大权已落入诡诈的政客手中.

来自《简明英汉词典》

[ dishonest 造句 ]