Word Of The Day

Contumelious:

: insolently abusive and humiliating [Merriam-Webster]

Noted in “BLASPHEMY, LASCIVIOUS ACTS: STATE PUSHES TO REPEAL OLD LAWS,” 1420 WBSM [New Bedford]:

[Rep. Jay Livingstone’s] legislation would also lift a section of state law punishing anyone who “blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging of the world.”

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