flouter

Example Sentences

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While Nadal is the most notorious flouter of the time-limit rule, plenty of other players, such as Marin Cilic and Andy Murray, have been cited for violations, too.

From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2018

But another flouter of film industry norms, the surreal, independently financed space adventure “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” was dead on arrival.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2017

Next day the London press, led by the sober-sided Times, called him defiant, a flouter of Churchill, one who "threatens grave embarrassment to the British Government."

From Time Magazine Archive

But the Argentine press, outside of its music columns, flayed Chaliapin as a haughty flouter.

From Time Magazine Archive

And now, you mocker and flouter of what may be my bitterest misfortune—why, sir, no punishment is sharp enough for you!

From The Mississippi Bubble by Hough, Emerson