This week's theme: adjectives.

contumelious (kon-too-MEE-lee-uhs, -tyoo-) adjective

   Rudely contemptuous.

[From Latin contumelia, perhaps from contumax (insolent).]

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=contumelious

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "No one person knows everything -- even the conceited and contumelious,
   neither any group nor individual is greater than the country."
   Oba Pius; The National Political Reform Conference; The Post (Cameroon);
   March 31, 2005.

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