Used in a sentence: "Even at the ripe old age of 43 years, 3 months and 30 days, the geek in me is still excited to expand my vocabulary, which was done recently when I saw the phrase 'nefarious and contumacious' and had to look up the second word."
Sadly, I don't remember the place where I saw it ... (in the Sunday newspaper? on a 24 hour news channel? during a Judge Judy episode?) ... but I did have to go edumacate myself pretty quickly so I could sleep that night.
Would that I were a boxer ... I would have named my right and left nefarious and contumacious respectively.
But since I'm not, I can at least file away an adjective to describe myself more colorfully when I get in one of my antidisestablishmentarianistic moods.
MY NEW FAVORITE WORD:
http://www.wordsmith.org/words/contumacious.html
SEEMS LIKE POETS HAVE KNOWN ABOUT CONTUMACIOUS FOR AWHILE NOW:
http://hellopoetry.com/words/176250/contumacious/poems/
THE SOURCE OF MY VOCABULARY EXPANSION IN HIGH SCHOOL:
http://www.amazon.com/Word-Wealth-Ward-S-Miller/dp/003041931X
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