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flouting

/flout/US // flaʊt //UK // (flaʊt) //

蔑视,藐视,藐视他人的行为,蔑视性

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock: to flout the rules of propriety.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to show disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff, mock, or gibe.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a disdainful, scornful, or contemptuous remark or act; insult; gibe.

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Examples

  • It was a big story—indicating that Israel was continuing to flout international law to prevent Hezbollah from getting weapons.

  • Republicans could flout their own resentments and true believers.

  • How do you openly flout a landmark Supreme Court ruling and not suffer any consequences?

  • He chose the country and let Alice flout contemporary morals, carousing and smoking in public.

  • A pardon would flout the principle that even the president is not above the law.

  • It is one of the oldest institutions of the country, which even we upon our hundred acres would not have dared to flout.

  • We English, once upon a time, did especially flout the little nation then acting a history that proved worth the writing.

  • Couldn't afford to offend Railway Directors, yet wouldn't do to flout numerous body of working-men, chiefly voters.

  • Very easy it is for you, who have the impudence to flout kings, to talk thus to one who is frightened of strangers.

  • Is it a safe thing, think you, Sir Count, to jest with a princess in her own land and then come back to flout her for it?