Thursday, May 27, 2010

Hey, everybody!

Flout:
verb:  treat with contemptuous disregard("Flout the rules")
verb: laugh at with contempt and derision

Flaunt:
noun:  the act of displaying something ostentatiously ("His behavior was an outrageous flaunt")
verb:  display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously

Illegal immigrants are not "flaunting the law", they are "flouting the law".  They are different words, and perfectly good ones, in their place.  Learn them.

Flaunting the law would be something like driving at exactly the speed limit in the fast lane of the freeway.

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