Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who plays on the flute; a fluter.
  • noun One who flouts; a mocker.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who flouts; a mocker.

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  • noun A person who flouts

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision

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Examples

  • The flouter of protocol, who at a royal reception in Stockholm sought to engage the Swedish crown princess to the already married Boris Nemtsov, was in his office unusually formal, insisting on jackets and ties, addressing even close aides with the respectful vy, rather than the intimate or patronizing ty.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The flouter of protocol, who at a royal reception in Stockholm sought to engage the Swedish crown princess to the already married Boris Nemtsov, was in his office unusually formal, insisting on jackets and ties, addressing even close aides with the respectful vy, rather than the intimate or patronizing ty.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The flouter of protocol, who at a royal reception in Stockholm sought to engage the Swedish crown princess to the already married Boris Nemtsov, was in his office unusually formal, insisting on jackets and ties, addressing even close aides with the respectful vy, rather than the intimate or patronizing ty.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The flouter of protocol, who at a royal reception in Stockholm sought to engage the Swedish crown princess to the already married Boris Nemtsov, was in his office unusually formal, insisting on jackets and ties, addressing even close aides with the respectful vy, rather than the intimate or patronizing ty.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Well, sir, which is it, flag-bearer or flouter, torch or torturer, that best describes the Islamic Republic's relationship to human rights?

    Washington's Willy Loman 2009

  • Apparently, he is among many things a stubborn control freak, a flouter of authority at every turn, and a weirdo who goes way too far with the clown routine.

    A Night with Patch Adams Mother Jones RN 2007

  • Perhaps she had cast me away altogether, as a flouter and a changeling; perhaps she had drowned herself in the black well; perhaps (and that was worst of all) she was even married, child as she was, to that vile Carver Doone, if the Doones ever cared about marrying!

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • As a persecuted dissident and flouter of the one-child rule, the party could not have punished him more for having yet another child so he was fully prepared to try to give his wife a daughter.

    The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002

  • As a persecuted dissident and flouter of the one-child rule, the party could not have punished him more for having yet another child so he was fully prepared to try to give his wife a daughter.

    The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002

  • As a persecuted dissident and flouter of the one-child rule, the party could not have punished him more for having yet another child so he was fully prepared to try to give his wife a daughter.

    The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002

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