Word Confusion: Flaunt versus Flout

Plural for the noun: flaunts
Gerund: flaunting

Third person present verb: flaunts
Past tense or past participle: flaunted
Present participle: flaunting

Plural for the noun: flouts
Gerund: flouting

Third person present verb: flouts
Past tense or past participle: flouted
Present participle: flouting

[Obsolete] Something paraded or displayed conspicuously, defiantly, or boldly

Verb, intransitive:
To parade or display oneself conspicuously, defiantly, or boldly

To wave or flutter conspicuously in the air

Verb, transitive:
Display (something) ostentatiously, especially in order to provoke envy or admiration or to show defiance

• [flaunt oneself] Dress or behave in a sexually provocative way

To show or make obvious something you are proud of in order to get admiration

• Insult
• Gibe

Verb, intransitive:
[Archaic; usually followed by at] Mock

• Scoff

Verb, transitive:
Openly, deliberately disregard a rule, law, or convention

“Should I , in these my borrow’d flaunts, behold
The sternness of his presence?” (Shakespeare).

Verb, intransitive:
It was a great flaunting crowd that day.

The flag flaunts proudly in the breeze.

“A tortoiseshell butterfly flaunted across the window” (Woolf).

Verb, transitive:
If you’ve got it, baby, flaunt it.

Newly rich consumers are eager to flaunt their prosperity.

The nouveau riche are generally derided for flaunting their wealth.

It was funny, most girls he knew were out, flaunting themselves, baring every bit of flesh that they could get away with, without getting arrested.

From the opening scene through the end of the episode, she flaunts herself.

He’s got a lot of money but he doesn’t flaunt it.

Flavio was flaunting his tan in a pair of white trunks.

He evidently quailed under his jokes, and sat blinking like an owl in daylight, when pestered by the flouts and peckings of mischievous birds.

Verb, intransitive:
The women pointed and flouted at her.

The law is extensively flouted.

“Okay, you get off this time but just make sure you know, flattery only gets you so far,” she flouted.

That question will normally come to consciousness only when the convention is flouted, as it occasionally is, facetiously.

Verb, transitive:
These same companies still flout basic ethical practices.

The new recruits were growing their hair and flouting convention.

The young woman had been flouting the rules and regulations.

Those illegal campers persisted in flouting the law.

Too often drivers who flout the law go on to cause serious crashes.