Example sentences for: flouted

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

  • 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.

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

  • Where no one had the wherewithal to stand up for it--say, in rural Alabama-- Loving was flouted.

  • 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."

  • At about the same time, National Public Radio's Terry Gross on All Things Considered said of an artist she had interviewed, He flouted his radical opinions [in order to shock].


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