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Contumacious.
insubordinate
1
The only dogma her
contumacious
mind could obey were her own ideas.
2
At Amersham, he had a sort of pitched battle with the
contumacious
soldiers.
3
Was not his evil finger manifested in the
contumacious
heresy of Roger Williams?
4
Their combined influence has brought to their support the most
contumacious
of the delegates.
5
The
contumacious
he sent to work upon the Great Wall.
6
The master of a school could not manage the gab, they being exceedingly
contumacious
.
7
But, the cardinal declared Huss
contumacious
,
and excommunicated him accordingly.
8
He wore stripes, night and day, and if
contumacious
,
was whipped by the guards.
9
On her refusal to plead she was condemned as
contumacious
.
10
Bethink you that if she should prove
contumacious
,
I cannot rescue her from punishment.
11
An unfettered despotism drew no distinction, but rejected all questions of legality as
contumacious
.
12
Robert Hornblower, after a lifetime of meek submission, had suddenly become
contumacious
and unruly.
13
She had never before encountered a clergyman so
contumacious
,
so indecent, so unreverend,-soupsetting.
14
Hard labor for life had been the sentence pronounced against the escaped and
contumacious
accomplices.
15
The
contumacious
jurors did not long remain in duress.
16
Then, on these six
contumacious
men, was passed in due form the sentence of death.
contumacious
prove contumacious
so contumacious
contumacious town
contumacious vassal
hopelessly contumacious