1 Birds is rare choosers an a robin can flout a body worse than a man.
2 To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires; to flout their striving idly is to welcome a harvest of brutish crime and shameless lethargy in our very laps.
3 Rebelliously she leaned her elbows on the counter and looked at the crowd, flouting Mammy's oft-repeated admonition against leaning on elbows and making them ugly and wrinkled.
4 The change had been so gradual, the flouting of one small convention seeming to have no connection with the flouting of another, and none of them any connection with Rhett.
5 With this sin of disobedience in him, Jonah still further flouts at God, by seeking to flee from Him.
6 Then, in other moments, he flouted these theories, and assured him that his fellows were all privately wondering and quaking.
7 You flouted the ministers of holy religion, you turned your back on the confessional, you wallowed deeper and deeper in the mire of sin.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3