flout
verb/flaʊt/
/flaʊt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they flout | /flaʊt/ /flaʊt/ |
| he / she / it flouts | /flaʊts/ /flaʊts/ |
| past simple flouted | /ˈflaʊtɪd/ /ˈflaʊtɪd/ |
| past participle flouted | /ˈflaʊtɪd/ /ˈflaʊtɪd/ |
| -ing form flouting | /ˈflaʊtɪŋ/ /ˈflaʊtɪŋ/ |
- flout something to show that you have no respect for a law, etc. by openly not obeying it
公然藐视，无视（法律等） - Motorists regularly flout the law.
驾车者经常无视法律。 - to flout authority/convention
公然藐视权威／惯例 - She likes flouting convention and doing her own thing.
她就爱藐视习俗、我行我素。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- deliberately
- openly
Word Originmid 16th cent.: perhaps from Dutch fluiten ‘whistle, play the flute, hiss (in derision)’; German dialect pfeifen auf, literally ‘pipe at’, has a similar extended meaning. - Motorists regularly flout the law.