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flout

verb as in show contempt for

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McCoy, like pastors on both sides of the political aisle, openly flouts the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 law that bars tax-exempt organizations from participating in political campaigns and endorsing candidates.

The complaints cited an email from Joseph Martinez, BaronHR’s head of sales and operations, expressing frustration at the company’s repeated flouting of the law.

However, operators often flout safety rules and overcrowd them beyond capacity.

From BBC

But whatever the process chosen, anti-abortion laws were regularly flouted, broken on average a million times a year.

Baritone David Stout is happy to flout the old rule about not working with children and animals.

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

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