How to Use flout in a Sentence

flout

verb
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  • Despite repeated warnings, they have continued to flout the law.
  • Beseeching Pence to flout the law and put the vote on pause.
    — John Lithgow, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Beijing and Riyadh have been keen to flout their growing ties.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 7 Aug. 2023
  • But the North has long flouted the deal, testing its first bomb 11 years ago.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • And how hard is Ohio coming down on sportsbooks that flout the rules?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Trump wouldn’t have been the first president to flout a court order.
    — Jack Goldsmith, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
  • This isn’t the first time a tourist in Italy has flouted the rules while sightseeing this year.
    — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The problem began with the nature of the statute Johnson had flouted.
    — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 10 June 2019
  • That’s why Hillary flouted the rules for her email server.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 27 Oct. 2017
  • On the fourth night of the protests, Evans and a group of cops were pursuing a rowdy crowd flouting the city’s curfew.
    — Jamie Thompson, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Donald Trump flouts norms and ignores conventions and tells lies all the time.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Parents who flout the ban are fined up to 10 chickens or one goat, a hefty sum in rural Malawi.
    — Abigail Haworth, Marie Claire, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Yet a trip to nearly any shop in New Delhi makes clear how widely the ban is flouted.
    — Fox News, 4 June 2018
  • The people flouting rules and risking lives are being dicks.
    — Lauren Bravo, refinery29.com, 13 May 2020
  • Uber has often flouted local laws in its drive for growth.
    — Newley Purnell, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
  • If anything, wouldn’t a concession like this encourage more folks in the stands to flout the rules?
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The state is slow to discipline doctors even when they are accused of flouting board rules.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Trump, far more than Sessions, likes to flout GOP orthodoxy.
    — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 12 June 2018
  • But several visits to the parks in recent weeks revealed that some guests flout the rules.
    — Randy Diamond, ExpressNews.com, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Williams has made a practice of painting women who flout societal rules, but here the rules have changed.
    — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The president has flouted the law, and, when courts have called him to account, has ridiculed and even threatened judges who defied his will.
    — Garrett Epps, The Atlantic, 10 May 2017
  • When one side regularly flouts norms, the other side pays the price for striving to uphold them.
    — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Officials are yet to decide on penalties for those who flout the ban.
    — Sugam Pokharel and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 22 Aug. 2019
  • But a willingness to flout democratic norms has been apparent in the GOP for far longer.
    — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Others have been accused of flouting some of their most basic duties in the courtroom.
    — Joseph Cranney, ProPublica, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Norway’s team had been planning for weeks to flout the rules to point out the double standard for female athletes.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2021
  • Drivers constantly flout those rules, or evade them by holding a phone between the legs, or just below the chin.
    — Mike Lindblom, The Seattle Times, 18 May 2017
  • Nursing homes who flout the rules may be fined up to $2,000 per violation.
    — Fox News, 10 May 2021
  • When public agencies flout the public records law with such impunity, newsrooms are forced to turn to the courts.
    — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2021
  • Is her reply a subtle (or perhaps not so subtle) way of flouting the rules?
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 25 July 2018

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