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How to use flouted in a sentence

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Rules are flouted and violated with immunity exposing the common man to potential peril.
If rules of behaviour are flouted, those responsible must answer for their actions.
Thus he flouted the social hierarchies of his time by eating and associating with outcasts.
In the large state-owned mines, safety regulations are flouted to meet production targets, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.
Laws to control the sale of fireworks are being flouted in the run up to Bonfire Night, a Manchester Evening News investigation has revealed.
Friends say that the no hard drugs rule is openly flouted, which is sad but not great a surprise.
People who are willing to shout, wave signs, march and sing for whichever cause is being flouted at the time.
This silly man is being abused, ridiculed and punished for having flouted his own moral principles, and then being idiotic enough to confess it.
But you have flouted common sense in matters of good accounting and book-keeping.
Similar regulations on the Continent are either being ignored or blatantly flouted, with no punishment being administered by the member state.
Obvious examples of where this principle is being flouted are Vehicle Registration Tax and the duty on wine.
Unfortunately, these practices are so engrained in certain regions that the authority of the State is sometimes flouted.
They continue to ensure that the central promise of return is flouted and mocked.
But in no case were these flouted too indelicately or ostentatiously.
In fact, the aggressor in this war has not only ignored the relevant UN resolution, it has defied the United Nations and openly flouted international law.
In the past there have been a number of cases in which employers openly flouted the labour regulations and failed to observe even this minimal protocol when sacking workers.
That would be no good if rights already in the law can be flouted by the Member States.
The government tries to pass the buck and the Conservatives are conspicuously silent only when the law is being flouted by one of their own.
In 1996 an inferno killed 162 people in the crowded Ozone discotheque, which had flouted fire-safety regulations.
It focuses on a Vancouver counterfeiter of DVD products who repeatedly flouted the system over a period of years.
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Examples from Classical Literature
She flouted his authority and sustained her incredible effrontery by a restraining order from the court.
If he had flouted the Holy See, he had also offended the temporal head of Christendom.
But it was provoking to be flouted, so politely too, by that whelp of the Golden Dog!
And, though her reason flouted any possibility of wild dangers, her fancy went on picturing them with unflagging zeal.
Now Emerson was an anarch who flouted the conventions of art and life.
He had been vanquished, cheated, scorned, shamefully flouted.
Ferrero picked up the cape and flouted it in the bull's eyes.
Are we boys at school, to be scolded and flouted and put right by you?
Then, in other moments, he flouted these theories, and assured himself that his fellows were all privately wondering and quaking.
Police must also clamp down on other rules being flouted by motorists.
The CBI report based on complaints about flouting of rules in the selection process and corruption allegations against the officer in question show how rules were flouted.
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