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   flout

   /flaʊt/

   verb

   • 1. openly disregard (a rule, law, or convention): "the advertising code is being flouted"
   • 2. mock; scoff: archaic "the women pointed and flouted at her"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: perhaps from Dutch fluiten ‘whistle, play the flute, hiss (in derision)’; German dialect pfeifen auf, literally ‘pipe at’, has a similar extended meaning.

   Scrabble Points: 8

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