Flout
Flout verb - Treat with contemptuous disregard.
Usage example: flout the rules
Nearby Word: flouting
Ignore
Ignore verb - To fail to give proper attention to.
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- Sometimes this is because of structural elements that flout or ignore real-world physical laws, or because the outfit in question requires an inhumanly perfect (or simply inhuman) body underneath it, or because real-world materials just don't look as good as ink and paint.
Source: Impossibly Cool Clothes - When it's not, Neutral Good tends to step into the breach (Chaotic Good has tendencies towards ignoring rules as a matter of course - Neutral Good will ignore the rules when necessary, but make no special effort to flout them when it's not).
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