flout
verb /flaʊt/
/flaʊt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they flout | /flaʊt/ /flaʊt/ |
| he / she / it flouts | /flaʊts/ /flaʊts/ |
| past simple flouted | /ˈflaʊtɪd/ /ˈflaʊtɪd/ |
| past participle flouted | /ˈflaʊtɪd/ /ˈflaʊtɪd/ |
| -ing form flouting | /ˈflaʊtɪŋ/ /ˈflaʊtɪŋ/ |
- flout something to show that you have no respect for a law, etc. by openly not obeying it synonym defy
- Motorists regularly flout the law.
- to flout authority/convention
- She likes flouting convention and doing her own thing.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- deliberately
- openly
Word Originmid 16th cent.: perhaps from Dutch fluiten ‘whistle, play the flute, hiss (in derision)’; German dialect pfeifen auf, literally ‘pipe at’, has a similar extended meaning.