Associations to the word «Contumacious»

Wiktionary

CONTUMACIOUS, adjective. Contemptuous of authority; willfully disobedient; rebellious.
CONTUMACIOUS, adjective. (legal) Willfully disobedient to the summons or orders of a court.

Dictionary definition

CONTUMACIOUS, adjective. Wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient; "a contumaceous witness is subject to punishment".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne