Definitions for flout

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Spelling: [flout]
IPA: /flaʊt/

Flout is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in flout (flotu).

Definitions for flout

noun

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

verb (used with object)

  1. to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock:

verb (used without object)

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

Origin of flout

1350-1400; Middle English flouten to play the flute; compare Dutch fluiten to play the flute, jeer

Examples for flout

I know not what the world is coming to, when young maids may flout their elders.

Beneath the car of this Juggernaut we must flout our judgments and crush our affections.

Bessie did not pout or flout when neither Levi nor her father appeared to receive her.

He was not free simply to flout 278 the legacy and toss it angrily aside.

He chose the country and let Alice flout contemporary morals, carousing and smoking in public.

It was a big story—indicating that Israel was continuing to flout international law to prevent Hezbollah from getting weapons.

The Gentiles, who are neither proud nor intellectual, spit upon him and flout him.

Republicans could flout their own resentments and true believers.

We flout the businessman, but without him there would be no poets.

Niagara, however, might flout them if it pleased; they could do without Niagara.

Word Value for flout
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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