Synonyms for flout

Grammar : Verb

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Phonetic Transcription : flaʊt

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Définition of flout

Origin : 1550s, perhaps a special use of Middle English flowten "to play the flute" (cf. Middle Dutch fluyten "to play the flute," also "to jeer"). Related: Flouted; flouting.

verb show contempt for

Example sentences :

Beneath the car of this Juggernaut we must flout our judgments and crush our affections.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

I know not what the world is coming to, when young maids may flout their elders.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

Niagara, however, might flout them if it pleased; they could do without Niagara.
Extract from : « Marriage la mode » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Bessie did not pout or flout when neither Levi nor her father appeared to receive her.
Extract from : « Freaks of Fortune » by Oliver Optic

The Gentiles, who are neither proud nor intellectual, spit upon him and flout him.
Extract from : « William Shakespeare » by John Masefield

He was not free simply to flout 278 the legacy and toss it angrily aside.
Extract from : « The Wall Between » by Sara Ware Bassett

We flout the businessman, but without him there would be no poets.
Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 » by Elbert Hubbard

Nay,” she said, “it is not we that flout him, but these Papistical knaves which do flout us for his sake.
Extract from : « Robin Tremayne » by Emily Sarah Holt

Mayhap she'll cry a bit, or flout the duke, or laugh at his ways.
Extract from : « Nancy Stair » by Elinor Macartney Lane

Theres a reality you didnt see at all in your haste to flout convention.
Extract from : « Adrienne Toner » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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