Sentence examples for be flouted from inspiring English sources
verb
To express contempt for the rules and law by (word or action).
Governments should not do it.Cyber-warfare is an unruly business, where rules will be flouted.
It is not just the popular will that may be flouted.
They have cynically allowed even the excessive quotas they had established to be flouted with impunity.
But other advocates saw the ruling as a triumph and a sign that the public will cannot be flouted.
"It's extraordinary that the House of Lords decision [on the Belmarsh detainees]... and the Human Rights Act can be flouted".
They accepted that his human rights might be flouted should he be sent to the US to face a legal process over the Wikileaks revelations.
Berliners found to be flouting the new law face fines of up to €100,000.
Democratic accountability is flouted.
But Title IX quotas being flouted at major universities?
Other traffic rules are flouted with seeming impunity.
It is not perfect; god knows it's flouted regularly.
