Example Sentences

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The first world leader to speak at the General Assembly, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, will flout the vaccination rule on Tuesday.

From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2021

“If someone openly says that they will flout the law, they can’t call themselves a civic society group,” Lam said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2021

And the entire journey will flout the Kimberley Process, a decade-old, U.N.-mandated international agreement to curtail rampant global diamond smuggling.

From Time • Aug. 20, 2012

I cannot choose but smile to think how the villain will flout the gallows, scorn the audience, and descant on the hangman, and all presuming of his pardon from hence.

From The Spanish Tragedy by Kyd, Thomas