Vocabulary Word
Word: flout
Definition: reject; mock; show contempt for; scorn; Ex. flout the rules
Definition: reject; mock; show contempt for; scorn; Ex. flout the rules
Sentences Containing 'flout'
He set himself to listen attentively, and those below raised their voices so that he could hear these words: "Urge me not to sing, Emerencia, for thou knowest that ever since this stranger entered the castle and my eyes beheld him, I cannot sing but only weep; besides my lady is a light rather than a heavy sleeper, and I would not for all the wealth of the world that she found us here; and even if she were asleep and did not waken, my singing would be in vain, if this strange AEneas, who has come into my neighbourhood to flout me, sleeps on and wakens not to hear it."
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