Her expectations of love and protection in her domestic life had been egregiously flouted.
This assumption, though, is daily flouted in standard linguistic practice.
First, conservatives attached civil rights to lawlessness by arguing that civil disobedience flouted laws and would inevitably lead to more lawless behavior.
The only support from the state is their tax-exempt status and some dubious preferential policies, often flouted by state bureaux and public utilities.
Indeed, so ingrained was this marital system that unconventional marriages-that is, marriages that flouted traditional expectations-stand out as especially obvious political statements.
That question will normally come to consciousness only when the convention is flouted, as it occasionally is, facetiously.
That would, however, have flouted the unsuitability principal.
Throughout the 1920s, the bakery owners routinely flouted the contract's clauses and adamantly refused to accept the closed shop.
