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Contumeliously

adverb
1.
Without respect; in a disdainful manner.  Synonyms: contemptuously, disdainfully, scornfully.






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... goddess in commemoration of the anticipated victory; but when Batakes presented himself to the popular assembly with the intention of making the same report there, Aulus Pompeius, one of the tribunes, stopped him, calling him an impostor, and contumeliously driving him from the Rostra; which however contributed to gain most credit for the man's assertions. For on the separation of the assembly, Aulus had no sooner returned to his house than he was seized with so violent a fever that he died ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume II • Aubrey Stewart & George Long



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