flout
IPA: fɫˈaʊt
noun
- The act by which something is flouted; violation of a law.
- A mockery or insult.
verb
- (transitive) To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action.
- (transitive, archaic) To scorn.
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Examples of "flout" in Sentences
- That's the policy that he flouted.
- It is mainly used to flout the law.
- They also flout the guidelines for discussion.
- To flout is to show contempt for: He flouts the law.
- They find the nonchalance and flouting of convention liberating.
- This user seems to want to flout the rules of Wikipedia over and over.
- That’s weird, because the similarity between flaunt and flout is phonetic.
- A lack of responses on the talk page is not carte blanche to flout the rules.
- Beijing will introduce tough laws to punish firms that flout food safety laws.
- GOP candidates "flout" family values? heh wrote on October 19, 2007 12: 47 PM:
- European Union pigs will come from farms that are flouting animal welfare rules.
- Academy schools are flouting admission rules to select pupils from more privileged families.
- The civic body turns a blind eye to this blatant flouting of norms by various political parties.
- The OED’s first attestation of flaunt to mean flout is in 1923, so apparently once the error appeared, it took off like gangbusters.
- When asked how best to deal with mining companies that "flout" regulations, Mary Lu Jordan, chairman of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, had a different take.
- ¬ † I sincerely doubt that a little cabal of NASA HQ folks had this all planned - just as you hypothesize - such that they could deliberately "flout" Congress - and do so when Congress was home for the holidays - oh yes, with no one noticing.
- ‰I sincerely doubt that a little cabal of NASA HQ folks had this all planned - just as you hypothesize - such that they could deliberately "flout" Congress - and do so when Congress was home for the holidays - oh yes, with no one noticing.
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