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flout

verb as in show contempt for

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It was a big story—indicating that Israel was continuing to flout international law to prevent Hezbollah from getting weapons.

Republicans could flout their own resentments and true believers.

How do you openly flout a landmark Supreme Court ruling and not suffer any consequences?

He chose the country and let Alice flout contemporary morals, carousing and smoking in public.

A pardon would flout the principle that even the president is not above the law.

It is one of the oldest institutions of the country, which even we upon our hundred acres would not have dared to flout.

We English, once upon a time, did especially flout the little nation then acting a history that proved worth the writing.

Couldn't afford to offend Railway Directors, yet wouldn't do to flout numerous body of working-men, chiefly voters.

Very easy it is for you, who have the impudence to flout kings, to talk thus to one who is frightened of strangers.

Is it a safe thing, think you, Sir Count, to jest with a princess in her own land and then come back to flout her for it?

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On this page you'll find 63 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to flout, such as: defy, disregard, mock, repudiate, scorn, and spurn.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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