The phrase "a flouting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an act of openly disregarding or violating a rule, law, or social norm.
Example: "His actions were a flouting of the established guidelines, leading to significant consequences."
Alternatives: "an infringement" or "a violation".
Mr. Corbett said, "I would view this as a carefully considered exception to the rules, rather than a flouting of them".
But Thomas Bender, a cultural historian at New York University, said the ultraluxury towers represented a flouting of the social distribution of wealth around the world.
Tillman's clothing and notebooks were burned — a flouting of Army regulations — and he was fast-tracked for a posthumous Silver Star, which, as Krakauer shows, was a fraud.
The trip wasn't even technically a surprise, since White House officials, in a flouting of security procedures, confirmed the visit before Kushner had landed in Baghdad.
Gen. George R. Fay said a flouting of military procedures by C.I.A. officers who had conducted interrogations inside the prison had "eroded the necessity in the minds of soldiers and civilians for them to follow Army rules".
Had this arrangement been permitted to proceed there would have been a completely unacceptable and grave risk of breaches of the peace, and a flouting of the criminal law both in Belfast and en route to Bellaghy.
Two Saudi Arabian women detained by authorities for nearly a month after flouting a ban on female drivers are to be tried in a special court for terrorists.
In the findings of the panel, published on 30 April, Al Zarooni was accused of a "deliberate flouting" of the rules and "widespread systematic misuse of illegal substances".
You might hear polemical words on a movie flouting family values and offending decency and good for them for saying so.
If the case against the club succeeds, it would be the first time the city had closed a business solely for flouting a ban on smoking.
A third flouted fire safety regulations; when a blaze broke out, a man narrowly escaped with his life.
