Usually means: Defiantly resistant to lawful authority.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word contumaciously:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. contumaciously: Merriam-Webster
  2. contumaciously: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contumaciously: Collins English Dictionary
  4. contumaciously: Vocabulary.com
  5. contumaciously: Wordnik
  6. contumaciously: Wiktionary
  7. contumaciously: Dictionary.com
  8. contumaciously: Rhymezone
  9. contumaciously: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. contumaciously: FreeDictionary.org
  11. contumaciously: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. contumaciously: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. contumaciously: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. contumaciously: Legal dictionary

(Note: See contumacious as well.)

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▸ adverb:  In a contumacious manner.

Similar:
rebelliously, defiantly, contumeliously, contemptibly, contradictiously, uncontemptuously, unconceitedly, uncomplaisantly, contemningly, recalcitrantly, more...

Opposite:
obediently, compliantly, submissively

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Similar:
rebelliously, defiantly, contumeliously, contemptibly, contradictiously, uncontemptuously, unconceitedly, uncomplaisantly, contemningly, recalcitrantly, more...

Opposite:
obediently, compliantly, submissively



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