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contumely

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help with synonyms synonyms: obloquy, vituperation, scurrility ???

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insulting language or treatment; contempt

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Some of the very peasants who had been most active in wrangling with him over the hay, some whom he had treated with contumely, and who had tried to cheat him, those very peasants had greeted him goodhumoredly, and evidently had not, were incapable of having any feeling of rancor against him, any regret, any recollection even of having tried to deceive him.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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Too often she betrayed this, by the undue vent she gave to a spiteful antipathy she had conceived against little Adèle: pushing her away with some contumelious epithet if she happened to approach her; sometimes ordering her from the room, and always treating her with coldness and acrimony.

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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