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Definition of Flouting
1. flout [v] - See also: flout
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flouting
Literary usage of Flouting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"... as he looked back after he had achieved his degree in physical science (for
he persisted in flouting his college tutors and throwing up the certainty of ..."
2. A World Court in the Light of the United States Supreme Court by Thomas Willing Balch (1918)
"... Civil War had successfully resisted the actions of the United States Courts,
thereby virtually flouting the decision of the Federal Supreme Tribunal. ..."
3. The Little Minister by James Matthew Barrie (1898)
"CHAPTER VA WARLIKE CHAPTER, CULMINATING IN THE flouting OF THE MINISTER BY THE
WOMAN "IV/fR• DISHART!" 1. Y J. Jean had clutched at Gavin in Bank Street. ..."
4. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"But his gall so rises at the degradation, that while going through the form he
cannot help flouting the citizens to their face :— " Third Cit. ..."
5. The Failure of Lord Curzon: A Study in "imperialism" by Charles James O'Donnell (1903)
"... flouting OF EXPERIENCED ADVICE—A BETISE I HAVE pleasure in recognising that
in one particular Lord Curzon's policy has undoubtedly been well advised. ..."
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