Definition of flouts Flouts
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What does flouts mean?
Part of speech
🔤- flouts, verb, present, 3rd person singular of flout (infinitive).
WordNet
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| flout - laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker" | ||
| jeer, scoff, barrack, gibe | ||
| twit, taunt, tantalize, razz, tantalise, cod, bait, rally, rag, tease, ride attack with dogs or set dogs upon | ||
| flout - treat with contemptuous disregard; "flout the rules" | ||
| scoff | ||
| brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, disregard, ignore, dismiss give a reduction in price on; "I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- flout (v. t.)
To mock or insult; to treat with contempt. - flout (v. i.)
To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at. - flout (n.)
A mock; an insult.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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flout
To treat or speak of with contempt.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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flout
flowt, v.t. and v.i. to jeer, mock, or insult: to treat with contempt.—n. a mock: an insult.—adv. Flout′ingly, with flouting: insultingly.—n. Flout′ing-stock (Shak.), an object for flouting. [Prob. a specialised use of floute, M. E. form of flute, to play on the flute. So with Dut. fluiten.]
Part of speech
🔤- flout, verb, present, 1st person singular of flout (infinitive).
- flout, verb (infinitive).
