November 19, 2007

Flout

flout \FLOWT\, transitive verb:

1. To treat with contempt and disregard; to show contempt for.

intransitive verb:1. To mock, to scoff.

noun:1. Mockery, scoffing.

Who put your beauty to this flout and scornBy dressing it in rags.-- Tennyson, Idylls of the King

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