Word: flouted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call it what you will-after that many hours in the air, told him that something was wrong. And his seniority as a four-engine over-water captain probably told him where the trouble was. But he dared not accept that knowledge and act on it. He dared not flout and affront, even with his own life too at stake, our cultural postulate of the infallibility of machines, instruments, gadgets. I grieve for him, for that moment's victims. We all had better grieve for all people beneath a culture which holds any mechanical [gadget] superior...
...Oppenheimer's and McCarthy's assumption of their above-the-law status furnishes the pivot of rationalized excuse for vast numbers of either tempted or careless or ignorant lesser fry to flout or evade the law, including security regulations, as may seem best to their own individual judgments. This is so elemental that the almost universal failure of our scientists to sense its truths brings the scientific fraternity into question, posing one of the great paradoxes of our time...
...Simple Solution. "Part of the emotional underpinning of Catholic isolationism," complains Commonweal's managing editor, James O'Gara, "undoubtedly comes from the long-standing love affair between the American Catholic press and the simple solution. Until comparatively recent times, few statements could flout reality too baldly ... for solemn editorial approval, if only they sounded sufficiently moral. Any increase in the crime rate, for example, was obviously the result of the decline of religion; any attempt to discuss other . . . factors was considered unnecessary...
...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...