How to use "flout" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "flout" in popular movie and book plots

  • Captain Jack stars Bob Hoskins as a rebellious captain of a small Whitby boat who is determined to flout petty maritime bureaucracy.  - Captain Jack (film)
  • When Paromita learns of her friend's deterioration, she is compelled to flout convention, and returns to nurse Sanaka on her deathbed.  - Paromitar Ek Din
  • Intrigued one day when Sarah delivers firewood to the White household, and to flout Martha, Patience invites Sarah into her part of the house and socializes with her.  - Patience and Sarah
  • She tells him of the "book people", a hidden sect of people who flout the law, each of whom have memorized a book to keep it alive.  - Fahrenheit 451 (film)
  • The migrants make their way north, having no desire to assimilate to French culture, but continuing to demand a First World standard of living, even as they flout laws, do not produce, and murder French citizens, such as factory bosses and shopkeepers.  - The Camp of the Saints
  • And the bane of his life is a pair of slimy pimps, who flout the law and enjoy humiliating him.  - Coup de Torchon
  • The Takers believe themselves to be exempt from this Law and flout it at every point.  - Ishmael (novel)

Example sentences for "flout" in interesting articles

  • A bigger cost is in the legitimacy of the public sphere as a whole when even MPs can flout the rule of law so brazenly.  - Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record
  • Is that accurate? Max says: December 30, 2011 at 1:47 am You can complain about the law. Do you think that corporations should be free to flout the law to make money as long as they say it’s for your own good? Markx says: December 30, 2011 at 3:29 am This is a very good point. Often, when doing business in a foreign country, you have to stop and remind yourself that if that is what the law states/requires, that is how it must be done.  - India Sues Monsanto for . . . Biopiracy?
  • I then got an email saying: You need to stop everything you’re doing and focus on this.”The MEGA-plate shows just how easily and readily bacteria can flout our medicines.  - Videos of Evolution in Action
  • Keep close watch for signs of the rise of a culture of official impunity, in which friends and supporters of power-holders are allowed to flout rules that bind everyone else.Those citizens who fantasize about defying tyranny from within fortified compounds have never understood how liberty is actually threatened in a modern bureaucratic state: not by diktat and violence, but by the slow, demoralizing process of corruption and deceit.  - How to Build an Autocracy
  • It suggests instead that this is something the scientists did to themselves – and, consequently, to us. We tend to think of heretics as contrarians, individuals with a compulsion to flout conventional wisdom.  - The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health

Meaning of "flout" in English

  • treat with contemptuous disregard
  • laugh at with contempt and derision

Meaning of "flout" in Hindi

  • चिढाना ( Chidhana, chidhanaa)
  • बोली बोलना ( Boli bolana, bolee bolanaa)
  • अनादर करना ( Anadar karana, anaadar karanaa)
  • अवहेलना करना ( Avahelana karana, avahelanaa karanaa, awahelana karana)
  • उपेक्षा करना ( Upeksha karana, upekshaa karanaa)
  • चिढ़ाना ( Chidhana, chidhanaa)
  • ताना मारना ( Tana marana, tanaa maaranaa)
  • तिरस्कार करना ( Tiraskar karana, tiraskaar karanaa)
  • निरादर करना ( Niradar karana, niraadar karanaa)
  • व्यंग्य करना ( Vyangy karana, vyangy karanaa, wyangy karana)
  • परवाह न करना ( Paravah n karana, paravah na karanaa, parawah n karana)
  • अवज्ञा करना ( Avagya karana, avagyaa karanaa, awagya karana)
  • उपहास करना ( Upahas karana, upahaas karanaa)

Synonyms of "flout"

  • jeer
  • scoff
  • barrack
  • gibe

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