The phrase "a flouting of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an act of openly disregarding or violating a rule, law, or social norm.
Example: "The company's decision to ignore safety regulations was seen as a flouting of industry standards."
Alternatives: "a violation of" or "a disregard for".
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.
His final act of gustatory defiance came on Super Saturday last year, when he and his rebel noshers, clad in Hawaiian shirts, brought in assorted deli sandwiches -- a flagrant flouting of suite lease Rule 6(a), which effectively bars independent picnicking catered by outsiders.
(You can almost picture Ms. Stewart making a peppy pitch for the silver balls Queeg famously fondles as a handy — and decorative — tension-reducing device.) Did Queeg's relentless prosecution of petty shipboard infractions and his cowardly behavior on the fringes of battle indicate a dangerous mental instability, or was Maryk's action a grave flouting of the rules of military order?
Mr. Baker, too, perpetuated a notion that there was something happening in Florida that was a bald flouting of the law, and that Mr. Gore and Democrats were somehow getting away with it.
It suggests history, depth, a sophisticated flouting of Birkin-bag trendiness.
They also had to watch parents being handcuffed and heavily restrained – a direct flouting of UKBA guidelines.
