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...
- and ****. The Guardian (7 December 2010). Retrieved on 9 May 2012. "Royals flout puritanical laws to throw parties for young elite while religious police...
- 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...
- 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...
- considered overly restrictive and economically damaging to the state while also flouting his own administration's guidelines personally. Controversies and frustration...
- to flout an unwritten constitutional convention; or to dispute the correct, legal interpretation of the violated constitutional law or of the flouted political...
- Fikayo (4 May 2020). "Lagos residents fear COVID-19 escalation as buses flout transportation guidelines [PHOTOS]". Daily Post Nigeria. Retrieved 30 June...
- 800 people, with only 7,800 of Mexican descent. Many immigrants openly flouted Mexican law, especially the prohibition against slavery. Combined with...
- at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 23 March 2007. "BJP accuses Sonia of flouting law". The Indian Express. 12 May 1999. Archived from the original on 27...