Antonyms for flout
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : flout |
| Phonetic Transcription : flaʊt |
Definition 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
- 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
Synonyms for flout
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