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contumely

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The torso, which had remained unscathed, was burned in the amphitheatre, in a final act of contumely.

en.wikipedia.org

Few things, though, irritate me as much as the contumely heaped generally upon escorted tours and specifically on coach holidays.

www.telegraph.co.uk

They who suffered the contumely of the censorious have joined the sniffy chorus of the censors themselves.

www.independent.co.uk

Both departed the country's highest office amid some contumely and are now widely respected.

news.nationalpost.com

Instead, he had kept him at the farthest remove possible, in disgrace and contumely, and had suffered him to be held a sort of prisoner in marshy and sickly regions.

en.wikipedia.org

This causes plenty of arguments, specially if a question was only lightly loaded and gets a bigger dose of contumely back.

www.listener.co.nz