List of antonyms from "float" to antonyms from "flow back"


Discover our 210 antonyms available for the terms "flocking, florid, flounder, flock, floss, flood" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.

Definition of the day : « flout »

  • 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