Sentence example with the word 'flout'

flout

abase, caustic remark, degrade, disoblige, gibing retort, insult, minimize, parting shot, revile, slap, treat with contempt

Definition v. treat with contemptuous disregard

Last update: October 2, 2015


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He flouted the norms set by the society.   [Please select]

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We will make businesses which flagrantly flout the rules criminally liable for the consequences.   [Please select]

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The problems are well understood, yet each year member states openly flout EU rules.   [Please select]

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Blyth Scudamore was blest with that natural feeling of preference for one's own kin and country which the much larger minds of the present period flout, and scout as barbarous.   [Please select]

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But if a boy comes up to me and mistakes me for an acolyte or something of that kind, is that a reason why I should flout or punish him.   [Please select]

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Hippias had ceased to flout and dally.   [Please select]

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Not content with that, he even flouted our blockading fleet by coming out to look at them.   [Please select]

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And Master Lynch bade him have a care to flout and witwanton as the god self was angered for his hellprate and paganry.   [Please select]

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"They say that the works of the Pharaohs here on the Nile flout Time."   [Please select]

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"Birds is rare choosers an' a robin can flout a body worse than a man."'   [Please select]

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"--the mob's flout is hushed, and the legislator Is struck dumb also."   [Please select]

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