Verb (used with object) : to flout the rules of propriety. From Dictionary.com.
Well, sir, which is it, flag-bearer or flouter, torch or torturer, that best describes the Islamic Republic's relationship to human rights?. From Wordnik.com. [Washington's Willy Loman] Reference
Apparently, he is among many things a stubborn control freak, a flouter of authority at every turn, and a weirdo who goes way too far with the clown routine. From Wordnik.com. [A Night with Patch Adams] Reference
As a persecuted dissident and flouter of the one-child rule, the party could not have punished him more for having yet another child so he was fully prepared to try to give his wife a daughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Stone Monkey]
And now, you mocker and flouter of what may be my bitterest misfortune -- why, sir, no punishment is sharp enough for you!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mississippi Bubble] Reference
No action can be taken against the dumpers, the single biggest flouter of all rules, because some politico or the other owns them. From Wordnik.com. [ Analysis] Reference
If a hd digital recorder of the mocambique thalassic pogrom flouter a disreputable anabolism, enviously the pitchman has a polygynous conferrer to lifespan with it. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Perhaps she had cast me away altogether, as a flouter and a changeling; perhaps she had drowned herself in the black well; perhaps (and that was worst of all) she was even married, child as she was, to that vile Carver Doone, if the Doones ever cared about marrying!. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference
The old notary was as much a lover of the old nobility as Raoul de Loisson was a flouter of it. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Law of the Land] Reference
And then he nobly took his revenge by the clever, but unprincipled way in which he caricatured the rather remarkable dancing of the young man who was the object of his hate, and whose style of movement it would not be consistent with this writer's duty to deny was amenable to severity, and must, in any society, have subjected him who indulged in it to the scorn of the flouter and the contempt of all high-minded men. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference
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