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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are flouting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that someone is openly disregarding or violating a rule, law, or social norm.
Example: "The protesters are flouting the city's regulations by gathering in large numbers despite the ban."
Alternatives: "are defying" or "are violating".
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But some candidates are flouting this advice.
But Laidlaw complains that competitors are flouting the rules.
"An estimated 1.4 million drivers are flouting the law by driving without insurance.
These people are flouting the nation's fraud laws as well as the Do Not Call Registry".
Now Republican leaders and presidential candidates are flouting the idea of central-bank independence.
Customers are encouraged to report their neighbours who are flouting the ban.
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Other traffic rules are flouted with seeming impunity.
"Child labor and minimum wage laws are flouted," Mr. Estabrook writes.
When laws are flouted, it breeds distrust in government and resentment in the social order.
Rules are flouted and not flaunted, at least in the case mentioned in the above article.
But we cannot look the other way while international law and human rights are flouted.
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