- flout something
to show that you have no respect for a law, etc. by openly not obeying it 公然藐视，无视（法律等） Motorists regularly flout the law. 驾车者经常无视法律。 🔊🔊 to flout authority/convention 公然藐视权威／惯例 She likes flouting convention and doing her own thing. 她就爱藐视习俗、我行我素。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- deliberately
- openly
Word Originmid 16th cent.: perhaps from Dutch fluiten ‘whistle, play the flute, hiss (in derision)’; German dialect pfeifen auf, literally ‘pipe at’, has a similar extended meaning.