OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 14391

contumacious

/ˌkɒn.tjʊˈmeɪ.ʃəs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
insubordinado
Contemptuous of authority; willfully disobedient; rebellious.
In all places too are Dissident Priests; whom the Legislative will have to deal with: contumacious individuals, working on that angriest of passions; plotting, enlisting.
Its verbs are conjugated in a way that defies all the injunctions of the grammar books; it has its contumacious rules of tense, number and case; […]
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