flouted

For women who already fit into this ideal—white, thin, blond, blue-eyed women—beauty can be flouted.

He flouted so many conventions of what the West regards as good taste that he seemed to be angling for a role as Dr. Evil.

The cops, of course, always attend Hempfest, not to muck up the vibe but to make sure no big, important laws are being flouted.

These should be coupled with mechanisms for monitoring the use of such protocols and accountability where they are being flouted.

Those who claim to respect international law cannot avert their eyes when those laws are flouted.

Condillac after the marquis's death had refused to pay tithes to Mother Church and has flouted and insulted the Bishop.

Every body in the house despised her; her ladyship insulted her; the very kitching gals scorned and flouted her.

Throughout the old world an inventor is usually regarded as a visionary, or a lunatic, and flouted by all his contemporaries.

Now Emerson was an anarch who flouted the conventions of art and life.

To be baffled by one woman was bad enough, but to be flouted for his failure by another was irritating in the extreme.