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HUBLOT Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Flaunt a law
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But the swarms of camouflaged police that surrounded the picturesque Orroral Valley Homestead yesterday were, in fact, training to handle any bushland fugitives that decide to flaunt the law in the ACT.
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/flaunt
flaunt
1 [transitive] flaunt something
to show something you are proud of to other people, in order to impress them
- He did not believe in flaunting his wealth.
- She openly flaunted her affair with the senator.
2 [transitive] flaunt yourself
to behave in a confident and sexual way to attract attention
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/flout
flout
flout something
to show that you have no respect for a law, etc. by openly not obeying it
- Motorists regularly flout the law.
- to flout authority/convention
What's the meaning of "flaunt a law," not "flout a law"?
But the swarms of camouflaged police that surrounded the picturesque Orroral Valley Homestead yesterday were, in fact, training to handle any bushland fugitives that decide to flaunt the law in the ACT.
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/flaunt
flaunt
1 [transitive] flaunt something
to show something you are proud of to other people, in order to impress them
- He did not believe in flaunting his wealth.
- She openly flaunted her affair with the senator.
2 [transitive] flaunt yourself
to behave in a confident and sexual way to attract attention
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/flout
flout
flout something
to show that you have no respect for a law, etc. by openly not obeying it
- Motorists regularly flout the law.
- to flout authority/convention
What's the meaning of "flaunt a law," not "flout a law"?
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My guess is that it is a mistake: the writer meant flout but wrote flaunt.
- My guess is that it is a mistake: the writer meant flout but wrote flaunt.
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My guess is that it is a mistake: the writer meant flout but wrote flaunt.
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