The five days came, and three days more, then one day he requested: I, perceiving that he flouted me, have got him thus arrested.
It was ten years ago that Patricia had flouted and dismissed him.
Nanon reddened and flouted like an enraged turkey gobbler at this unceremonious address.
Whenever she dared, Nanon, whose sense of exasperation had reached fever point, jeered and flouted at the blonde beauty.
Its innocent admirations are flouted and its standards are condemned as provincial.
Its enormities are held up before all eyes, and it is flouted in every possible way.
Dost mean to say the girl flouted the suit of--nay, then, what dost thou mean?
You mind that knave boatswain who still scoffed and swore at thy prayers, Elder, and so grievously flouted the first who fell sick among you?
Tell me now, William Bradford, dost thou to-day love me as thou couldst have loved Alice Carpenter who flouted thee and married Edward Southworth instead?
The rule of law in the world, flouted by the lawlessness incited by these defendants, had to be restored at the cost to my country of over a million casualties, not to mention those of other nations.
If anything, it aggravates their offense and makes it the more mandatory that the law they have flouted be vindicated by juridical application to their lawless conduct.
Huge vampire bats, like demons incarnate, flouted their faces as they paddled swiftly toward the distant town.
In the whirring of the bats which flouted his face he heard the singing of arrows and the hiss of hurled rocks.
A thousand bats, hideous denizens of these black tunnels, flouted their faces and disputed their progress.
And she, with head averted, was laughing silently; I could see that, too; and never in my life had I been so flouted to my face.
Sir William now considered himself doubly flouted by this man from Curles, and vowed that the rebel Bacon should never sit in the new House of Burgesses.
Antony jumped up and down and yelled with the best of them; the men of Charles Town were having their revenge on the sea-rovers who had so openly flouted them a short time before.
Estrella, of whom I spoke, fairly worshipped him although her own family flouted her for doing so, as he only came to see her at long intervals and seemed ashamed to be seen with her .
But to-day he hath purloined a melon, flouted one of the brothers, broken the bounds, seduced his comrades into evil, and perhaps hath done other things not yet known.
She should remember her greatness of old time and the blessing of Patrick; and those who had enslaved her, those who had scorned her and flouted her, should learn the strength of hands nerved by the love of God and the love of country!
Are we boys at school, to be scolded and flouted and put right by you?
You alternately ignored and made use of me--as you pleased--and after all I had done for you you flouted me in the face of my company.
He had flouted the critics, the dramatic departments of all the papers.
But she had confidence in "Master Dick," and concluded that to send his nephews to him at Winchester gave a far better chance of their being cared for, than letting them be flouted into ill-doing by their grudging brother and his wife.
You call it nothing, sir, that his Majesty's Commission has been floutedfor six hours past by all the riffraff of the Docks?
King Lear, thwarted and flouted by Goneril and Regan, goes mad, and wanders away with his Fool.
Iago is therefore much more perfectly a living being but much less passionately alive than the soul burnt out at Bosworth, or the soul flouted in the Duke's Court.
The flame-colored abbey gonfalon on its gold lance floutedthe German emperor when Bouvines' great victory was won in 1214.
If all human families were loving, if father never opposed daughter or son flouted mother, then such a play as Magda never would have been written.
That worthy rector, who would marry Dina in a pitying, pardoning way, is flouted by her.
And when floutedand reproached by smooth and lofty ecclesiastics, as an ultraist and leveler, he explained and justified himself by observing, that he had only done what his office demanded.
Many a flouted gallant could tell the tale of one who "Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.
And occasionally the lover, flouted overmuch, retorts in kind.
If she had loved him it had not been worth it, but this girl spurned and flouted him.
He was going because he thought his lady flouted him; when he finds she does not--well, if he budges a step out of Paris, I do not know him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flouted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
