flouting

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flouting

/ˈflaʊtɪŋ/
[ˈflæɔɾɪŋ] Australia
[ˈfläʊ̯ɾɪŋ] US

Rhymes with -aʊtɪŋ

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of flout

noun floutings

The act by which something is flouted. We have observed that implicatures are a standard strategy for overcoming apparent floutings of the maxims of quality.

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@misc{flouting_2026,
  title = {flouting},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/flouting},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}