Bad table manners flout common courtesy. From LearnThat.org.
flout the rules. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
That’s weird, because the similarity between flaunt and flout is phonetic. From Wordnik.com. [Flout good taste; flaunt your excesses « Motivated Grammar] Reference
The OED’s first attestation of flaunt to mean flout is in 1923, so apparently once the error appeared, it took off like gangbusters. From Wordnik.com. [Flout good taste; flaunt your excesses « Motivated Grammar] Reference
GOP candidates "flout" family values? heh wrote on October 19, 2007 12: 47 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | GOP Candidates Flaunt Their Family Values Today Before Tough Audience] Reference
Childebrand had the honor of figuring in some verses that I wrote to 'flout' Boileau. From Wordnik.com. [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference
Though some Men do flout us, and others do doubt us. From Wordnik.com. [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference
"You but seek to flout me from my tale," she said sweetly. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
They abide by, not flout, their international obligations. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2006] Reference
How dare he flout so outrageously the canons of Martial Law. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
"Hold thy tongue, brawler, nor presume to flout thy betters!". From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
It also proposes penalties for parents who flout court rulings. From Wordnik.com. [FIGHT FOR FATHERS' RIGHTS] Reference
Then flout full high to their parent sky those circled stars of ours. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
This was earnest wooing, which contained nothing that she might flout. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
And thus he excused his flout by the heedlessness of the man he flouted. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Rights group says powers under Terrorism Act 2000 flout international law. From Wordnik.com. [Amnesty urges rethink on counter-terrorism measures] Reference
Why should it come to flout me at this juncture without revealing itself?. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
But the Chicks think they've succeeded because they flout old-school decorum. From Wordnik.com. [Good Old Grrrls] Reference
"I will marry her to you, if only to see her flout you," I promised vengefully. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
This was the twentieth century, in which no man could deliberately flout the law. From Wordnik.com. [32 Caliber] Reference
"They will take me for a girl," I muttered between my teeth, "and flout me accordingly.". From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
In former years they were totally indifferent to it, if indeed they did not openly flout it. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
Jibe at us, jeer at us, flout us and threaten us; but beware the day we turn in our strength. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference
We are pleased that the CPSC is exercising its authority to find companies that flout their laws. From Wordnik.com. [Mattel and Fisher-Price to pay $2.3 million penalty for violating lead paint ban] Reference
Without strong enforcement and adequate deterrents, wrongdoers will continue to flout the laws. From Wordnik.com. [Mattel to pay $12 million in fines to states] Reference
Judge Lamberth said issuing a temporary stay of his earlier ruling would flout the will of Congress. From Wordnik.com. [Judge Refuses to Stay Stem-Cell Ruling] Reference
But it is something else to intentionally flout, if not break, financial disclosure laws in the process. From Wordnik.com. [Aram Roston: Did Mayor Bloomberg's 2009 campaign break the law?] Reference
But even Chinese documents admit that the prisons regularly flout laws regulating treatment of prisoners. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Gulag] Reference
But it's one thing to campaign as a rebel willing to flout your party's orthodoxy when it helps attract voters. From Wordnik.com. [The Path To Power] Reference
Both sexes flout restrictions on mingling and drinking by getting together for parties, even raves, in private. From Wordnik.com. [Looking Inside] Reference
"Well, I never before met a woman who would deliberately flout her neighbours by wearing preposterous millinery!". From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
There is a group of countries that can flout all the rules, resist modernization and spout anticapitalist rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [Rogue Offspring] Reference
Couldn't afford to offend Railway Directors, yet wouldn't do to flout numerous body of working-men, chiefly voters. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 31, 1891] Reference
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires; to flout their striving idly is to welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
Our souls may rebel at its exigencies, but unless we happen to be millionaires, we cannot afford to flout the conventions. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
He did not scorn or flout the popular will; he had too confirmed a conviction of the sovereign right of the people to rule for that. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
Eastern shopkeepers widely flout restrictive store-opening hours, and helped force the government to relax regulations earlier this year. From Wordnik.com. [The Next Wall To Fall] Reference
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