flouted in English

verb
1
openly disregard (a rule, law or convention).
these same companies still flout basic ethical practices
synonyms:defyrefuse to obeydisobeybreakviolatefail to comply withfail to observecontraveneinfringebreachcommit a breach oftransgress againstignoredisregard
verb

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1. Flout a law; behavior that flouted convention.

2. Many immigrants openly flouted Mexican law, especially the prohibition against slavery.

3. Antonyms for Conformed include flouted, defied, breached, disregarded, violated, broke, brake, broken, contravened and disobeyed

4. Just as the quality maxim can be flouted for effect, so can the other three.

5. Instead, there were only angry arguments, and the boy flouted his parents’ orders to stop using drugs.

6. Jehovah strongly censured those who flouted his direction by offering lame, sick, or blind animals for sacrifice. —Mal.

7. 13 hours ago · The new complaint filed Friday against Judge Pinkey Carr says she routinely flouted court rules and Antagonized defendants, lawyers and court staff from the bench.

8. Pancho Villa and his Bandoliered men, who briefly invaded New Mexico in 1916, openly flouted their pot use as they sang verses of La Cucaracha about a cockroach smoking marijuana.

9. The funeral sector, which had squealed when the Government shut down Burials and funerals as unruly mourners flouted COVID-19 containment rules, is again crying foul even as some measures will be relaxed