Sample Sentences forflout (editor-reviewed)
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The current enforcement policy encourages people to flout the law.flout = openly disregard
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Don't get caught flouting the rules.flouting = openly disregarding
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McCandless could endeavor to explain that he answered to statutes of a higher order, that as a latter-day adherent of Henry David Thoreau, he took as gospel the essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" and thus considered it his moral responsibility to flout the laws of the state. (source)
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Birds is rare choosers an' a robin can flout a body worse than a man. (source)flout = openly disregard
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She saw now that she had undermined his authority in all eyes by flouting his orders. (source)flouting = openly disregarding
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You flouted my instructions to stay on the platform. (source)flouted = openly disregarded
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He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much for us.† (source)
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He cleared his throat and said, "Professor Dumbledore, these boys have flouted the Decree for the Restriction of Underage Wizardry, caused serious damage to an old and valuable tree —" (source)flouted = openly disregarding
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But in the early days of Christianity, there must have been a lot of chaos, a lot of radicals and free thinkers running around, flouting tradition. (source)
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But no one flouts that way of life and thought as openly as you do. (source)flouts = openly disregards
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Glad to see you, too, Mr. Rule Flouter.† (source)
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Not only was it alleged that the manoeuvre had been a most un-British attack on civilian Boer settlements, overwhelming evidence emerged that it had been irresponsibly commanded with several floutings of elementary military precautions, so that the men who had died - my brother among them - had died quite needlessly. (source)floutings = instances of openly disregarding
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See whether you can flout all moral principles and get away with it!† (source)
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Welch wasn't like those other places we had lived, he said. There were rules that had to be followed, and people didn't take it kindly when you flouted them. (source)flouted = openly disregarded
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But flouting the rules of the Institute seems to have been common in this beautiful room. (source)flouting = openly disregarding
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This man has, I repeat, no place in a community whose basic principles he flouts without compunction.† (source)
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