contumelious
C2CEFR level
98/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Insolently contemptuous, describing the high-handed disregard for a claimant's rights that attracts enhanced damages.
The defendant's contumelious refusal to apologise coloured the whole assessment of the award.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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