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f lowt

  • v  treat with contemptuous disregard
    flout the rules
  • v  laugh at with contempt and derision

  • Local satraps flout mining rules with impunity and wreck havoc on a fragile environment.
  • The intrepid young women dared to flout the dress code imposed by the University authorities.
  • In the military there is a heavy price to pay for flouting orders.
News & Articles

  • Why Daddy doesn't refer to himself in the third person
    What's with the Mommies and Daddies who refer to themselves in the third person? This Daddy – 10 weeks into his first child – doesn't think parenting is so unusually tough that it justifies flouting social norms.
    July 5, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
  • Why Daddy doesn't refer to himself in the third person
    What's with the Mommies and Daddies who refer to themselves in the third person? This Daddy – 10 weeks into his first child – doesn't think parenting is so unusually tough that it justifies flouting social norms.
    July 5, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
Quotes

  • Gordon Brown in Leading The Charge
    The rebels and government continue to openly flout UNSC (United Nations Security Council) resolutions through attacks on civilians,Brown said in a statement.
  • Itamar Ben-Gvir in Washington Post
    We came to say that the state of Israel is a Jewish state. We came in a show of loyalty and to say whoever is loyal, welcome. But people who flout the law should get out of here,said Itamar Ben-Gvir, a Jewish ultranationalist who helped lead...
  • Nicolas Sarkozy in Seattle Post Intelligencer
    This gallery "will be the chance for all French and foreign visitors to the Louvre to see that Islam is progress, science, refinement, modernity, and that fanaticism in the name of Islam is to flout Islam," Sarkozy said.

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