Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With flouting; disdainfully.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With flouting; insultingly.
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- adverb With
flouting ;insultingly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He governs all, and is governed and subject to none, but he rides and reigns; and you know not how magnificent and broad his chariot is; if you did, you would not thus floutingly depreciate our Scythian chariots.
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They were tied head to tail, four of them, and they heaved along to where a lane branched off from the highroad, planting their great hoofs floutingly in the fine black mud, swinging their great rounded haunches sumptuously, and trotting a few sudden steps as they were led into the lane, round the corner.
England, My England 1907
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"Gadso! they can't _all_ be lost!" exclaimed old Mivane floutingly.
The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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Christian and Catholic decency upon the people confided to their charge, the priests not only refused to do their duty, but floutingly referred the police to Lady Mary Burke.
Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861
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And then (floutingly) saith, it seems some mens mouths and bellies are very litle & slender over others.
Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts William Bradford 1623
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