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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Flout \Flout\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flouted; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Flouting.] [OD. fluyten to play the flute, to jeer, D.
     fluiten, fr. fluit, fr. French. See Flute.]
     To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.
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           Phillida flouts me.                      --Walton.
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           Three gaudy standards flout the pale blue sky. --Byron.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Flout \Flout\, v. i.
     To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to
     fleer; -- often with at.
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           Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout.     --Swift.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Flout \Flout\, n.
     A mock; an insult.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn.
                                                    --Tennyson.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Flout \Flout\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flouted; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Flouting.] [OD. fluyten to play the flute, to jeer, D.
     fluiten, fr. fluit, fr. French. See Flute.]
     To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.
  
           Phillida flouts me.                      --Walton.
  
           Three gaudy standards flout the pale blue sky. --Byron.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Flout \Flout\, v. i.
     To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to
     fleer; -- often with at.
  
           Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout.     --Swift.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Flout \Flout\, n.
     A mock; an insult.
  
           Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn.
                                                    --Tennyson.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  flout
       v 1: treat with contemptuous disregard; "flout the rules" [syn: scoff]
       2: laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at
          the speaker" [syn: jeer, scoff, barrack, gibe]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  flout
     Αγγλικά vb.
     παραβιάζω ασύστολα νομοθεσία

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  flout
     n.
     The act by which something is flouted; violation of a law.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by
  word or action.
     2 (lb en transitive archaic) To scorn.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  flout
     n.
     The act by which something is flouted; violation of a law.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by
  word or action.
     2 (lb en transitive archaic) To scorn.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  flout
     n.
     The act by which something is flouted; violation of a law.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by
  word or action.
     2 (lb en transitive archaic) To scorn.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  flout
     n.
     The act by which something is flouted; violation of a law.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by
  word or action.
     2 (lb en transitive archaic) To scorn.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  flout
     Englanti vb.
     uhmata t. halveksia (lakia, sääntöjä, tapoja jms.), olla
  noudattamatta

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Flout /flˈaʊt/
  الإهانة

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  flout //flaʊt// //flʌʊt// 
  надсмивам се, подигравам се
  to scorn

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  flout /flˈaʊt/ 
  opovrhovat

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  flout /flˈaʊt/
  vysmívat se

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  flout /flˈaʊt/ 
  missachten , sich hinwegsetzen 
           Note: Befehl
   see: flouting, flouted
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  flout /flˈaʊt/ 
  verspotten 
   see: flouting, flouted, flouts, flouted
  

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  flout //flaʊt// //flʌʊt// 
  1. halveksia, pitää pilkkanaan, uhmata
  to express contempt for the rules by word or action
  2. halveksia, pitää pilkkanaan
  to scorn

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  flout /flˈaʊt/ 
  1. अवहेलना
        "He flouted the norms set by the society."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  flout /flˈaʊt/
  podsmijeh, podsmijevati se, poruga

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  flout /flˈaʊt/
  1. gúnyolódás
  2. sértés
  3. megvetés
  4. sértô viselkedés
  5. csúfolódás
  6. sértô beszéd
  7. semmibevevés

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  flout /flaʊt/ 
    łamać, lekceważyć

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  flout /flˈaʊt/
  1. açıkça itaat etmemek, karşı koymak, muhalefet etmek
  2. alay etmek, eğlenmek
  3. hakaret etmek
  4. küçümsemek, hor görmek
  5. hürmetsizce davranmak
  6. (alay.)
  7. karşı koyma.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈfɫaʊt/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  138 Moby Thesaurus words for "flout":
     Parthian shot, abase, affront, aspersion, atrocity, back answer,
     barrack, belittle, blaspheme, break, break the law, brickbat,
     call names, care naught for, caustic remark, chaff, comeback,
     contemn, contempt, contravene, contumely, crack, cut, cut at,
     cutting remark, decry, defy, degrade, denigrate, denounce,
     deprecate, depreciate, deride, despise, despite, dig, dig at,
     disdain, dishonor, disobey, disoblige, disparage, disregard,
     do violence to, dump, dump on, enormity, fleer, fleer at, flouting,
     foolery, gibe, gibe at, gibing retort, gird, give offense to,
     go counter to, guy, hold in derision, humiliate, humiliation,
     hurl a brickbat, ignore, indignity, infringe, injury, insult, jab,
     jab at, jape, jeer, jeer at, jeering, jest, jibe at, knock,
     laugh at, laugh to scorn, leg-pull, minimize, misprize, mock,
     mockery, not conform, not heed, not keep, not listen, not mind,
     not observe, offend, offense, outrage, parting shot, pooh,
     pooh-pooh, put down, put-down, put-on, quip, rag, rail at, rally,
     rank out, refuse to cooperate, repudiate, revile, ridicule,
     rude reproach, scoff, scoff at, scorn, scout, scurrility,
     set at defiance, set at naught, set naught by, short answer, slam,
     slap, slap at, slight, slight over, sneer, sneer at, spurn, swipe,
     taunt, trample on, trample underfoot, trample upon, transgress,
     treat with contempt, treat with indignity, trespass, twit,
     uncomplimentary remark, verbal thrust, violate
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  v. 嘲笑,愚弄;
  n. 嘲笑,愚弄,轻视;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     vt. 嘲笑,愚弄
     vi. 表示轻蔑
     n. 嘲笑,愚弄,轻视

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