Word: flout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided most of the big packers were chiseling, cracked down on 100 of them for upgrading meat and for short-weighing butchers to get around the price ceiling. The packers indignantly denied the charges, but the Government said it had unearthed "a widespread and well-organized campaign to flout price control regulations." To bolster enforcement, OPA licensed packers & wholesalers (retailers are already licensed), brought the whole industry under control...
...There is no historical justification whatever for the remark, nor is there any need to flout the convictions of some 40,000,000 Anglicans...