Flaunt and flout may sound similar but they have different meanings. Flaunt means ‘to display ostentatiously’, as in visitors who liked to flaunt their wealth, while flout means ‘to openly disregard’, as in new recruits growing their hair and flouting convention. It is a common error, recorded since around the 1940s, to use flaunt when flout is intended, as in the young woman had been flaunting the rules and regulations.
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