contumacious in English

adjective
1
(especially of a defendant's behavior) stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority.
I have found him to be in wilful and contumacious breach of the injunction on him, which I am quite certain he knew perfectly well he had to obey in every respect.

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1. What does Contumaciously mean? In a contumacious manner

2. Contumaciously Contumaciously is the adverbial form of the word contumacious

3. On his refusal to appear in person or by his attorney, he was pronounced contumacious.

4. Synonyms for Bolshie include argumentative, belligerent, crabby, difficult, grouchy, quarrelsome, stroppy, tetchy, contrary and contumacious

5. Contumacy translation in English - Spanish Reverso dictionary, see also 'contumacious',contumely',contact',constancy', examples, definition, conjugation

6. Contumacious means stubbornly disobedient, wilfully obstinate or rebellious, thus Contumaciously means acting in a stubbornly disobedient way, in a wilfully obstinate way, or in a rebellious way.