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contumelious adj.傲慢無禮的,輕侮的。

contumely

Too often she betrayed this , by the undue vent she gave to a spiteful antipathy she had conceived against little adele : pushing her away with some contumelious epithet if she happened to approach her ; sometimes ordering her from the room , and always treating her with coldness and acrimony 她對小阿黛勒的心懷惡意,并無端發泄,常常使她在這點上暴露無遺,要是小阿黛勒恰巧走近她,她會用惡言毒語把她攆走,有時命令她離開房間,常常冷淡刻毒地對待她。