A person flouts scofflaw \skawf-law skof noun law fails pay - Hard English Vocabulary

Back	scofflaw \SKAWF-law, SKOF-\
Front	noun 1. A person who flouts the law, especially one who fails to pay fines owed. 2. A person who flouts rules, conventions, or accepted practices. [Scofflaw is a portmanteau that describes a person who scoffs, or mocks, the law. It's been used in English since the 1920s.] “You don't want your kids growing up thinking you're a scofflaw, do you?" - Janet Evanovich, Explosive Eighteen, 2011 When you go across the border at Nogales Arizona some very severe looking American guards, some of them pasty faced with sinister steelrim spectacles go scrounging through all your beat baggage for signs of the scorpion of scofflaw. - Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler, 1960

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scofflaw \SKAWF-law, SKOF-\

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noun

1. A person who flouts the law, especially one who fails to pay fines owed.

2. A person who flouts rules, conventions, or accepted practices.

[Scofflaw is a portmanteau that describes a person who scoffs, or mocks, the law. It's been used in English since the 1920s.]

“You don't want your kids growing up thinking you're a scofflaw, do you?" - Janet Evanovich, Explosive Eighteen, 2011

When you go across the border at Nogales Arizona some very severe looking American guards, some of them pasty faced with sinister steelrim spectacles go scrounging through all your beat baggage for signs of the scorpion of scofflaw. - Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler, 1960

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A Person Flouts Scofflaw \Skawf Law Skof Noun Law Fails Pay