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flouting
noun as in mordacity
Strong matches
noun as in mordancy
Weak matches
- acerbity
- acidity
- acridity
- acrimony
- aspersion
- banter
- bitterness
- burlesque
- causticity
- causticness
- censure
- comeback
- contempt
- corrosiveness
- criticism
- cut
- cynicism
- derision
- dig
- disparagement
- invective
- irony
- lampooning
- mockery
- mordacity
- put down
- raillery
- rancor
- ridicule
- satire
- scoffing
- scorn
- sharpness
- sneering
- superciliousness
- trenchancy
- wisecrack
noun as in sarcasm
Strong matches
noun as in trenchancy
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Israel is routinely flouting international law and has done so for decades.
There would be nothing to stop him from flouting a campaign promise, even one as sensitive as his tax pledge.
The result is that some topics are off-limits and others require flouting the facts.
MSNBC President Phil Griffin suspended his biggest star for flouting network rules against making political contributions.
While he gambled on being able to pull off the financial rescue, the House Republicans gambled on flouting him.
You cannot pretend that she was right in ignoring me, flouting me, insulting me!
You have shown total disregard of our feelings by glorifying the Punjab administration and flouting the Mosulman sentiment.
Bayne, flouting fear as a folly, yet himself feeling the cold chill of dismay, dared not dismiss their anxieties as groundless.
“I hoped I was flouting new beginnings,” he answered soberly, and he rowed languidly in a silence which Madeline rushed to fill.
He began to be bitterly attacked in some American newspapers, which accused him of "flouting his Americanism throughout Europe."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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