grossly-contemptuous

Updated: May 2, 2025

However, a round of duck-shot had some effect, though the blacks who escaped the pickling slapped themselves in a defiant and grossly-contemptuous manner. Each who did so, however, grieved, for another round was fired, and each hero must have depended upon the good offices of his brother in distress in picking out the pellets.

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Confessions of a Beachcomber