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flouted

/ˈflaʊtɪd/

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What does flouted mean?

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of flout

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈflaʊtɪd/

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Then, in other moments, he flouted these theories, and assured him that his fellows were all privately wondering and quaking.
Stephen CraneThe Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil WarProject Gutenberg ebook #73
Why, madam, have I offered love for this, To be so flouted in this royal presence?
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
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All the reforms proposed by France were flouted by the Sultan, and Germans claimed equal commercial and economic rights with the French.
Frederic, Lord HamiltonHere, There and EverywhereProject Gutenberg ebook #6368
Men have such different standards of worth from women, and her dear things—the valuable things to her—her brothers had so often mocked or flouted.
D. H. (David Herbert) LawrenceSons and LoversProject Gutenberg ebook #217
But the whole time he was in command, his soldiers treated him with the utmost contempt, and openly flouted his authority by riding about the camp on donkeys, several thousands at a time.
active 6th century B.C. SunziThe Art of WarTranslated by Lionel GilesProject Gutenberg ebook #132