Sentence examples for to flouting from inspiring English sources

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to flouting

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To express contempt for the rules and law by (word or action).

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On Sunday, the court ruled that accepting the state's agreement would be tantamount to flouting the rule of law.

Players try to appear to be adhering to the service rule while coming as close to flouting it as they possibly can.

By the end of the film, his demons have taken over, and he has become a compulsively self-destructive outlaw addicted to flouting authority.

Some law enforcement officials, alarmed at the prospect that marijuana users in both states could get used to flouting federal law openly, are said to be pushing for a stern response.

Just when you begin to relax and wait for the usual buttons to be pushed, it swerves in more uncertain direction and becomes an unsettling character study of a man self-destructively addicted to flouting authority that is camouflaged as a heist movie.

I would not vote for "uncommitted" because I was told that those votes would not be counted, and if they were, I did not want to empower the Michigan Democratic Party bosses whose hubris led to flouting the rules of the national Democratic Party.

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Bryant continued to flout the omertà.

Still an outcast, he continued to flout convention.

Newman decided to flout the genre's conventions.

But the point, always, is to flout convention.

And at least one theater has decided to flout it.

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