Flout Definition

flout
flouted, flouting, flouts
verb
flouted, flouting, flouts
To ignore or disregard (a rule or convention, for example) in an open or defiant way.
Flout a law; behavior that flouted convention.
American Heritage
To be scornful; show contempt; jeer; scoff.
Webster's New World
To mock or scoff at; show scorn or contempt for.
Webster's New World
To openly disregard, as by rejecting, defying, or ignoring.
Webster's New World

To express contempt for the rules by word or action.

Wiktionary
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noun
A scornful or contemptuous action or speech; mockery; scoffing; insult.
Webster's New World
The act by which something is flouted.
Wiktionary

Origin of Flout

  • Perhaps from Middle English flouten to play the flute from Old French flauter from flaute flute flute

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Perhaps from Middle English flouten, to play the flute; compare with Dutch fluiten.

    From Wiktionary

Flout Sentence Examples

  • We will make businesses which flagrantly flout the rules criminally liable for the consequences.

  • As the Danes soon afterwards took possession of Schleswig again, thePrussians once more drove them back, but, in view of the threatening attitude of the powers, Frederick William summoned up courage to flout the opinion of the German parliament, and on the 26th of August, without the central government being consulted, an armistice of seven months was agreed upon at Malmoe.

  • The problems are well understood, yet each year member states openly flout EU rules.

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Words Starting With

FFLFLO

Words Ending With

TUTOUT

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Words Starting With F and Ending With T

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