Definition of Flout. Meaning of Flout. Synonyms of Flout

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Definition of Flout

Flout
Flout Flout, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flouting.] [OD. fluyten to play the flute, to jeer, D. fluiten, fr. fluit, fr. French. See Flute.] To mock or insult; to treat with contempt. Phillida flouts me. --Walton. Three gaudy standards flout the pale blue sky. --Byron.
Flout
Flout Flout, v. i. To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. --Swift.
Flout
Flout Flout, n. A mock; an insult. Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn. --Tennyson.

Meaning of Flout from wikipedia

- followed helps to interpret utterances that seem to flout them on a surface level; such flouting often signals unspoken implicatures that add to the meaning...
- original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016. ****unta, Mary (2006). "BAT flouts tobacco-free World Cup policy". Tobacco Control. 11 (3): 277–278. doi:10...
- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A rogue is a person or entity that flouts accepted norms of behavior or strikes out on an independent and possibly...
- and ****. The Guardian (7 December 2010). Retrieved on 9 May 2012. "Royals flout puritanical laws to throw parties for young elite while religious police...
- compound of the words scoff and law. Its use has been extended to mean one who flouts any law, especially those difficult to enforce, and particularly traffic...
- resources supports an unexpectedly wide range of plankton species, apparently flouting the competitive exclusion principle, which holds that when two species...
- recent immigrants competed with Blacks for jobs. In the 1920s, the public flouting of Prohibition laws, organized crime, mob violence, and corrupt police...
- 15 October 2023. "Israel/Palestine: Devastating Civilian Toll as Parties Flout Legal Obligations". Human Rights Watch. 9 October 2023. Archived from the...
- quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity. The formal...
- 800 people, with only 7,800 of Mexican descent. Many immigrants openly flouted Mexican law, especially the prohibition against slavery. Combined with...