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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
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.
The 62-year-old musician — full name Troyal Garth Brooks — also accused the woman’s lawyers of flouting the authority of a judge in the related case he filed under a pseudonym in Mississippi federal court last month.
Reacting to today's figures, the prime minister's spokesman said rules around migrant sponsorship would be toughened "to ensure employers guilty of flouting employment laws are banned from hiring from abroad".
"Like Trump, Roy Cohn delighted in flouting the law and getting away with it."
She was accused of violating some of the same equity policies — those banned harassment based on sex, age and disabilities — that she’d originally accused her superiors of flouting.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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