Word: flout
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...president of the new Foreman's Association of America: "The decision is bad public policy. . . . We will accomplish in the shop what the law intended we should be able to accomplish in the court." Added the union's lawyer, Walter Nelson: "If employers bolstered by the decision flout the union's demands, there will be trouble." This sounded like the threat of a strike: the first strike of organized foremen in U.S. history...
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout...
...symbol of this namesake of a great American educator. First Liberty ship to bear a Negro's name, she is the first to be christened by a member of the Negro race-Marian Anderson, contralto-and the first to heed a Negro's command, the first to flout time-encrusted taboos against "checkerboarding" among licensed personnel...
...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...