Example sentences for: flouted

How can you use “flouted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But the paper said that even if it is argued that the rule of law would continue to be flouted as long as Saddam was in power, "there can be no consensus that the death penalty is called for."

  • One of these is the distinction between rules that must be obeyed and rules that can be safely flouted.

  • Indeed, the weapons turnover program they are administering is almost universally flouted by the KLA.

  • For all its nonsensical trappings, the mummy narrative is serious business, because when other peoples' passionately held taboos are casually flouted it is serious business.

  • Despite admissions that the plant had flouted government-approved guidelines for the handling of uranium and comments reported in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post from Western scientists that "safety practices in Japan are 'a bit lax,' " the Japanese government restated its commitment to commercial generation of nuclear power Tuesday.


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