flout

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• /flaʊt/
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• Canada: /flʌʊt/
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• rhymes with -aʊt
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Perhaps from Middle English flouten (“to play the flute”); compare with Dutch fluiten.

53 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• German: Missachtung — act by which something is flouted
• Polish: zlekceważenie — act by which something is flouted
• Bulgarian: пренебрегвам (prenebregvam) — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Chinese Mandarin: 公然藐視 /藐视、違背 /违背 (miǎoshì) — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Czech: opovrhovat — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Czech: nedbat — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Czech: ignorovat — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Czech: pohrdat — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Dutch: minachten — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Dutch: veronachtzamen — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Finnish: uhmata — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Finnish: halveksia — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Finnish: pitää pilkkanaan — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Galician: desleixar — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• German: sich hinwegsetzen über — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• German: missachten — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• German: pfeifen auf — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Hungarian: semmibe vesz — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Hungarian: fittyet hány — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Māori: whakatoi — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Māori: whakatoitoi — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Polish: lekceważyć — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Polish: zlekceważyć — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Portuguese: desrespeitar — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Romanian: fluiera în biserică — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Russian: пренебрега́ть (prenebregátʹ) — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Spanish: sobreponerse — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Spanish: saltarse a la torera — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Ukrainian: зневажати (znevažaty) — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Ukrainian: нехтувати (nextuvaty) — to express contempt for the rules by word or action
• Bulgarian: надсмивам се (nadsmivam se) — to scorn
• Bulgarian: подигравам се (podigravam se) — to scorn
• Chinese Mandarin: 藐視 /藐视、鄙視 /鄙视、不屑 (bǐshì) — to scorn
• Dutch: bespotten — to scorn
• Finnish: halveksia — to scorn
• Finnish: pitää pilkkanaan — to scorn
• French: mépriser — to scorn
• French: se moquer de — to scorn
• German: verspotten — to scorn
• German: beleidigen — to scorn
• Hungarian: kigúnyol — to scorn
• Hungarian: kicsúfol — to scorn
• Hungarian: megcsúfol — to scorn
• Hungarian: arcul csap — to scorn
• Māori: whakatoi — to scorn
• Māori: whakatoitoi — to scorn
• Polish: gardzić — to scorn
• Portuguese: escarnecer — to scorn
• Portuguese: ridicularizar — to scorn
• Russian: насмехаться (nasmexatʹsja) — to scorn
• Russian: глумиться (glumitʹsja) — to scorn
• Ukrainian: глузувати (hluzuvaty) — to scorn
• Ukrainian: насміхатися (nasmixatysja) — to scorn