What is the difference between flout and flaunt?

Paire confondue · C1

Flout or flaunt?

You flout a rule: you break it openly and without shame. You flaunt a possession or a quality: you display it to be admired. The confusion runs one way — people write flaunt the rules — but flouting is about defiance and flaunting is about showing off.

Quel mot, et pourquoi

flout

break a rule openly and deliberately

To defy a law or convention without hiding it.

flout the rules · flout the ban · openly flouted

flaunt

display something to be admired

To show off something you have, in a way others may find distasteful.

flaunt his wealth · flaunt it · flaunt her success

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Several operators have openly the new emissions rules.

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