flout
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Flout means defy or show contempt; flaunt means show off.
From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2014
Flout Philistia with great glee, fair and free, But agree To take its "tin," Though with a grin Of pessimistic spite.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, January 9, 1892 by Various
Flout, flowt, v.t. and v.i. to jeer, mock, or insult: to treat with contempt.—n. a mock: an insult.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Flout me not, but prithee go forward, and get me what is my own, my sole joy in the world.
From The Cloister and the Hearth by Reade, Charles
Flout me not, but prithee go forward and get me what is my own, my sole joy in the world.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
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