flout

IPA: fɫˈaʊt

Examples of "flout" in Sentences

To flout is to show contempt for: He flouts the law.
That’s weird, because the similarity between flaunt and flout is phonetic.
GOP candidates "flout" family values? heh wrote on October 19, 2007 12: 47 PM:
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.
Â¬âI 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.