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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
  • 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
  • It wasn't that she flouted rules: she simply forgot about them.  (source)
    flouted = intentionally disregarded
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  • Birds is rare choosers an' a robin can flout a body worse than a man.  (source)
    flout = openly disregard
  • I had flouted the king's laws all my life.  (source)
    flouted = openly disregarded
  • She saw now that she had undermined his authority in all eyes by flouting his orders.  (source)
    flouting = openly disregarding
  • But no one flouts that way of life and thought as openly as you do.  (source)
    flouts = openly disregards
  • Well, Mr. Rule Flouter, right down there in the forum—Julia, point for me, please—".†  (source)
    Flouter = someone who openly disregards -- typically a law, rule, or custom
  • 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
  • Is planning to flout that in their own city—the city they've secretly held for three thousand years, since the time of the Etruscans.†  (source)
    flout = openly disregard
  • You flouted my instructions to stay on the platform.  (source)
    flouted = openly disregarded
  • 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)
    flouting = openly disregarding
  • This man has, I repeat, no place in a community whose basic principles he flouts without compunction.†  (source)
    flouts = openly disregards
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