Contumacy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTUMACY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• stubborn perverseness
• stubborn refusal to obey or comply with authority, especially disobedience to a court order or summons.
• obstinate disobedience
• Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.
• A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned.
• willful refusal to appear before a court or comply with a court order; can result in a finding of contempt of court
• obstinate rebelliousness and insubordination; resistance to authority
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• stubborn resistance to authority; willful contempt of court

Words related to CONTUMACY

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How to use CONTUMACY in a sentence

• Contumacy was punished with exile and confiscation.
• She was always making excuses to consult my father about my contumacy and temper.
• Every one in these dales shall submit to the judge, or we, the sworn confederates, all will take satisfaction for all the injury occasioned by his contumacy.
• Bread and the circus are freely given to the deserving, and as for the undeserving, they are merely reaping the rewards of their contumacy and pride.
• He has been refused, for his contumacy in his last moments, Christian sepulture, and was buried in a field outside the Porta del Popolo.
• The lands had belonged to a family of Kumpureea Rajpoots, who were ousted for contumacy or rebellion, I believe.
• It is not a whit easier to ascertain whether a demand for balance of revenue from, or a charge of contumacy against, a landholder is just or unjust in the one than in the other.
• As they believed not therein at the first, We let them wander blindly on in their contumacy.
• He leaveth them to wander blindly on in their contumacy.
• But We suffer those who look not for the meeting with Us to wander blindly on in their contumacy.
• Instances of contumacy happened with such frequency and determination as should have given warning to those in control.
• Suspecting that this herb was the cause of their contumacy, we took a young hippopotamus, and kept him without food till he became quite ravenous.
• At first the best minds of the nation fret and rebel, and meet with the dungeon or the stake as the reward of contumacy.
• This act of contumacy to the Pope, both as feudal superior and as Supreme Pontiff, roused all the former opposition to his marriage.
• The news of your contumacy will spread like prairie fires.
• If he dared conceal the booty that was his, he had an enemy more powerful than the law, and many a time did contumacy pay the last penalty at the gallows.
• I gathered that he had ended a boyhood of contumacy by running away to sea, his people, though they had practically disowned him, allowing him a pound a week.
• Provoked at these repeated instances of vigor, which the court denominated contumacy, Charles ordered his attorney-general to enter an accusation of high treason against him.
• But no, they beat upon rebellion’s drum, and hoisted the flag of contumacy and spite, and blew the trumpet of calumnies across the world.
• Thereupon he was sentenced, more for his contumacy than for the original offence, to suspension from the college for two or three months.
• Eighteen years ago he was condemned in contumacy for conspiracy against the life of the late King.
• Beaumont should be tried for contumacy to the government.
• It is for contumacy and rebellion against that power in the church, which the law hath confirmed.
• Contumacy, or a refusal to confess, is invariably followed by death.

Similar words containing NTUMA without suffix cy and without prefix co

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