flout Meaning, Definition & Usage
-
verb treat with contemptuous disregard
scoff.
- flout the rules
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verb laugh at with contempt and derision
barrack; jeer; gibe; scoff.
- The crowd jeered at the speaker
WordNet
Flout transitive verb
Etymology
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To mock or insult; to treat with contempt. Phillida flouts me. Walton.
Three gaudy standarts lout the pale blue sky. Byron.
Flout intransitive verb
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To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.
Flout noun
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A mock; an insult. Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn. Tennyson.