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contumely

(n): a rude expression intended to offend or hurt
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about 1 year ago brtom said:

-- It was the speech, mark you, the professor said, of a finished orator, full of courteous haughtiness and pouring in chastened diction, I will not say the vials of his wrath but pouring the proud man's contumely upon the new movement.
Joyce, Ulysses, 7

about 1 year ago abbandono said:

As a general rule, if the word appears in Hamlet, it deserves a comeback.

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