Contumelious

a.	1.	Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful. Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. - Shak. Curving a contumelious lip. - Tennyson.
	2.	Shameful; disgraceful.

Adj.

1.

contumelious - arrogantly insolent

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