Definition of Flouting. Meaning of Flouting. Synonyms of Flouting

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Definition of Flouting

Flouting
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.

Meaning of Flouting 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...
- possessions upon joining an ascetic order or religious life, or deliberately flouting society's conventions to serve a religious purpose—particularly of Christianity...
- quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity. The formal...
- 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...
- 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...
- considered overly restrictive and economically damaging to the state while also flouting his own administration's guidelines personally. Controversies and frustration...
- patients' illnesses are based on subtle or controversial insights. His flouting of hospital rules and procedures frequently leads him into conflict with...
- outsider promoters, and to admit any promoter into the Alliance. The NWA would flout many of these promises, but its power was nonetheless weakened by the lawsuit...
- Azeez Adeshina Fashola (born 10 May 1991), known professionally as Naira Marley, is a British-Nigerian singer, songwriter and rapper. At the age of 11...
- and ****. The Guardian (7 December 2010). Retrieved on 9 May 2012. "Royals flout puritanical laws to throw parties for young elite while religious police...