Crossword clues for flouting
flouting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flout \Flout\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flouting.] [OD. fluyten to play the flute, to jeer, D. fluiten, fr. fluit, fr. French. See Flute.] To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.
Phillida flouts me.
--Walton.
Three gaudy standards flout the pale blue sky.
--Byron.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is flouted. vb. (present participle of flout English)
Usage examples of "flouting".
She had warned Tara repeatedly about making a public spectacle of herself and flouting Centaine was a perilous business, for she was not only Tara's stepmother but her mother-in-law as well, and the doyenne of the Courtney family and fortune.
Benjamin had been told merely that they were good friends of the family, but even at his tender age he would be aware of the social taboos that they were flouting, for his very existence must be permeated by the knowledge that white and black were somehow different and set apart from his own light brown, and sometimes he stared at Tara with a kind of wonder as though she were some fabulous creature from a fairy tale.
The change had been so gradual, the flouting of one small convention seeming to have no connection with the flouting of another, and none of them any connection with Rhett.
The stories about her had made many people wary of flouting the authority of Hold and Weyr.
And if at this point he had at last become a defector from the Castalian point of view, if he were flouting all the morality of the Order, seemingly serving only the needs of his own individuality -- still, this too would be done in the spirit of courage and of music.
Thievery and the flouting of his authority could not suffice to kindle his rage and spur him to action.
Single-handedly, he would exact vengeance for her flouting of the old ways.