Verb (used with object) : to flout the rules of propriety.    From Dictionary.com. 

He was, undoubtedly, the true genius that you hear the name flouted around so much.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remembering Hank Jones, 'The Dean Of Jazz Pianists'] Reference

Marrying her partner "flouted" the Catholic institution so much that she couldn't do her job anymore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waymon Hudson: Wedding Announcement Gets Lesbian Fired From Illinois Catholic University] Reference

Another fatuous, badly drafted piece of Labour tyranny flouted with impunity; sorry, not "flouted" because it's all entirely legal!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox hunting alive and well...] Reference

But one senior insider at another top team told BBC Sport he thought Red Bull had "flouted".    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

English and French all over Canada, he flouted the idea of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

To be flouted is disgraceful, but to dictate terms, sublime.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference

I am no longer a child, to be flouted and robbed without a word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from the Odyssey] Reference

Parental discipline is openly flouted, pleasure is our modern cult.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors of Greece] Reference

I flouted him in my youth; I wrestled with him and flung him from me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference

He flouted the Hollywood tradition of hiring from inside the industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Eisner Saved Disney--And Himself] Reference

From Fools 'hall to the pavilion of the tournament had she flouted him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

But the Boers flouted authority -- they refused to accept the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

Kelly had insinuated as much, and Tammany had flouted it for two days; but.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

"No; that is Americanese," flouted Britannia: "say you're in a beastly funk!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference

He openly flouted the alcohol ban, turning Atlantic City into a booming vice town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boardwalk Empire: Atlantic City bets on its glamorous past to assure its future] Reference

Swiftly his mind flew back to their first meeting; when she had flouted him in Fools 'hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

In New England, as in the South, democracy was flouted and a privileged position greatly prized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expansion and Conflict] Reference

The ribald versifiers flouted it in metrical lampoons whose burden was -- "The man I left behind me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy] Reference

In Munich last February, Putin railed against America the "hyperpower" that flouted international law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tyrant's Turn] Reference

/The orchids were slighted, the lilies were scorned, /The dahlias were flouted till botanists mourned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to nature] Reference

And dost thou forget the wiles and treachery of thy old lover whom thou hast flouted, Sir Dewin of Castle.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference

They had fawned to his face and flouted his back, gossiping of servants and made-over gowns and kindlings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimsy The Christmas Kid] Reference

Canada, was the government to be daily flouted, bearded, and treated with the utmost disrespect and contumely?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

But neither Pan nor Pitys had remembrance of Boreas, the merciless north wind, whose love the nymph had flouted.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Myths] Reference

Supreme Court in favor of the Cherokees, who refused to surrender their lands, was publicly flouted by the President.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expansion and Conflict] Reference

Many hoary paddock voices say the rule is unworkable and is flouted on a regular basis the entire length of the pitlane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Formula One, Integrity Nil: Ferrari and the worst brand of cheating] Reference

It must be remembered that most of these people had been persistently flouted, even insulted, by Diana during the voyage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference

The watchdog said that the practice of doorstep selling should be banned if Ofgem's new guidelines continued to be flouted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ofgem investigates doorstep gas and electricity sales agents] Reference

As FDR learned, even the best constitutions could dwindle into scraps of paper whenever and wherever this principle was flouted.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE PERILS OF INTERVENTIONISM] Reference

The facts: Another side deal is supposed to ensure that Mexico enforces its antipollution rules, which have been widely flouted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everyone Has Got His Own Spin] Reference

Predictably, the law was routinely flouted and researchers quietly continued to search for new and better ways to prevent pregnancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Crash Course On Contraception] Reference

Very often I flouted him and jeered at him, mocked him with his own unreality, and dared him to carry out his constant threat and strike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference

The administration hopes for a U.N. Security Council resolution this week authorizing military enforcement of the often flouted flight ban.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where The World Can Draw The Line] Reference