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- Dictionarycontumacious/ˌkɒntjʊˈmeɪʃəs/
adjective
- 1. (especially of a defendant's behaviour) stubbornly or wilfully disobedient to authority: archaic "his refusal to make child support payments was contumacious"
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Contumacious means refusing to obey or respect the law in a way that shows contempt, or disrespectful in general. Learn more about this word, its pronunciation, synonyms, and translations in different languages.
- English (US)
CONTUMACIOUS meaning: 1. refusing to obey or respect the law...
- Znaczenie Contumacious, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary
contumacious definicja: 1. refusing to obey or respect the...
- Contumacious in Simplified Chinese
CONTUMACIOUS translate: 不听命令的;(尤指对法庭命令)抗拒的, 不服从的;藐视的. Learn...
- Cambridge English Dictionary에서의 의미
contumacious 의미, 정의, contumacious의 정의: 1. refusing to obey...
- English (US)
Contumacious means stubbornly disobedient or rebellious, especially in legal contexts. Learn the etymology, synonyms, and examples of this word from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Contumacious means stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient. Learn more about its origin, derived forms, and usage in sentences from Dictionary.com.
Contumacious means stubbornly resistant to authority or wilfully obstinate. Find out the word origin, derived forms, and examples of usage from Collins English Dictionary and other sources.
You might hear the word contumacious used in a courtroom to describe an uncooperative witness or someone who willfully disobeys an order given by the court. If you have a glove compartment full of unpaid parking tickets, when you finally land in court your disobedient behavior may cause the judge to tell you that you're a contumacious lout.
Definition of contumacious adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Contumacious means obstinately disobedient or rebellious; insubordinate. Find the origin, pronunciation, and translations of this adjective, as well as related words and antonyms.