Word: flout
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...have] resolved that I will never again go see a movie which features or stars such people [as] flout the sanctity of the marriage vow. And I love the movies...
...emphasized that the University Libraries weren't trying to flout "advice" by Massachusetts State police that lending or sale of the book might make the distributor liable for court action...
...from the heavily industrial New England, Middle Atlantic and Great Lakes states had beaten down an attempt by Alabama's Congressman Albert Rains to force dispersal of new defense plants into less populated inland areas. Cried House Republican Leader Joe Martin of Massachusetts: "When [the President] can so flout the will of the Congress, we ... might as well shut up shop and go home." Rhode Island's Senator Theodore Francis Green, a Democrat, insisted that it was easier to build defenses for "compact industrial areas" than "scattered plants." Of the Easterners, only Massachusetts' air-minded Senator Henry...
...grimly explained why the job had to be done. "The Communist program for American labor is a program of destruction," he said. The leaders of a small percentage of the C.I.O., men pledged to "harassment, opposition and obstructionism," subscribe to that program. "They reject our basic policies; they flout the wishes of the majority. No self-respecting organization can long tolerate this dangerous division . . . The majority has the inherent right to protect its course of action and its future stability...
...lawyer, he wasn't a detective, and he wasn't physically tough. But he had a genius for ferreting out the sources of gangsters' income and jailing crooks for tax evasion. Elmer Irey and his T-men put the finger on such arrogant law-flout-ers as Al Capone, "Nucky" Johnson, Moe Annenberg and Tom Pendergast...