Her expectations of love and protection in her domestic life had been egregiously flouted.
Institutions and individuals can subvert, ignore, or flout the best-intended laws.
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.
On the face of it, this also flouts transparency leaving a murky region of discretion.
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.
