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But there policies on how to do so that he alleges she is flouting.

From Fox News • Jan. 25, 2022

Especially when said cop is flouting rules everyone else is supposed to obey?

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2021

A: Public draping might be a bit much, but I don’t think either of them is flouting social conventions to such an extreme that you have the right to tell them to cut it out.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2016

Mr. Rubio by contrast is flouting the usual rules, playing everywhere at once and nowhere on top.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2016

He has earned his little outing, This excruciating cove, And his instrument is flouting Bath, or Scarborough, or Hove.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 by Various