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. Sponsored by: "Prinderella and the Since," "Beeping Sleauty," + 41 other tales spoonerized by Stoopnagle + more can be yours from Publisher at http://stoneandscott.com Look good in it. Feel good about it. Super-soft organic tees and fleece with positive messages! http://www.wepluribus.com We the people. No exceptions. Free! Extra issue of any of Champs-Elysees Audio Magazines in French, German, Italian and Spanish. Subscribe at: http://web.champs-elysees.com/wsmith7 ............................................................................ The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. -John Milton (1608-1674) [Paradise Lost] Send your comments to (words AT wordsmith.org). To unsubscribe, update address send gift subscription, etc., visit http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/contumelious.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/contumelious.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/contumelious.html This message was sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
