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flouting
noun as in mordacity
Strong matches
noun as in mordancy
Weak matches
- acerbity
- acidity
- acridity
- acrimony
- aspersion
- banter
- bitterness
- burlesque
- causticity
- causticness
- censure
- comeback
- contempt
- corrosiveness
- criticism
- cut
- cynicism
- derision
- dig
- disparagement
- invective
- irony
- lampooning
- mockery
- mordacity
- put down
- raillery
- rancor
- ridicule
- satire
- scoffing
- scorn
- sharpness
- sneering
- superciliousness
- trenchancy
- wisecrack
noun as in sarcasm
Strong matches
noun as in trenchancy
Strong matches
Example Sentences
At least three judges in other deportation cases have accused Justice Department lawyers of flouting their orders or acting in bad faith.
The lawsuit claims that the region is “under siege” by federal agents and aims to stop federal agencies from an “ongoing pattern and practice of flouting the Constitution and federal law” during immigration raids.
Speaking for the first time since the sentencing hearing, Mr Morris' wife and son said more severe punishments were needed to stop drivers flouting the law.
And certainly it doesn’t give the government a W when the record in the case, like this one, is replete with evidence of its misconduct, including openly flouting court orders.
The choices of Libya and Rwanda — rather than, for example, Canada or France — can only be read as an intentional and open flouting of that prohibition.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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