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Verb (used with object)

[ flout ]

1. to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock:to flout the rules of propriety.

Verb (used without object)

2. to show disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff, mock, or gibe (often followed by at).

Noun

3. a disdainful, scornful, or contemptuous remark or act; insult;gibe.

Origin:
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English flouten “to play the flute” (see flute); compare Dutch fluiten “to play the flute, talk smoothly, soothe, blandish, impose upon, jeer”

“Is it a safe thing, think you, Sir Count, to jest with a princess in her own land and then come back to flout her for it?”
- S(AMUEL) R(UTHERFORD) CROCKETT,  JOAN OF THE SWORD HAND