Contumely is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.
You can make 385 anagrams from letters in contumely (celmnotuy).
1350-1400; Middle English contumelie (Anglo-French) Latin contumēlia, perhaps akin to contumāx (see contumacy), though formation and sense development are unclea
No more should the gallant beast he had bred be seized with contumely in the market-place.
We shall not be cast aside in contumely and unblest after all we have suffered.
Besides, what do you mean, by words of contumely from my lips?
The language of contumely was exhausted in vain efforts to describe his baseness.
For some time, he did not make a single convert, and gained nothing but contumely and abuse.
Garrison appealed to the master's heirs for redress, but was repelled with contumely.
Where is an equal army of men to be found to invite the contumely of their own sex?
His requests and his warnings were alike treated with contumely.
Ah Chun called for the manager and was treated with contumely.
Poverty, contumely, indignities of all sorts, met him wherever he turned.
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