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• For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time, The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely [...].
• She had been subjected to contumely and cross-questoning and ill-usage through the whole evening.
• What scorn, what contumely, would be his!
• If this picture of the two psychical agencies and their relation to the consciousness is accepted, there is a complete analogy in political life to the extraordinary affection which I felt in my dream for my friend R., who was treated with such contumely during the dream's interpretation.
• I could think of no words adequate to the occasion. So I belched. Not out of contumely, you understand. It was a sympathetic belch, a belch of brotherhood.
• I could think of no words adequate to the occasion. So I belched. Not out of contumely, you understand. It was a sympathetic belch, a belch of brotherhood.