WOTD: scofflaw \ SKAWF-law, SKOF- \ , 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 Quotes: “You dont want your kids growing up thinking youre 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 Origin: Scofflaw is a portmanteau that describes a person who scoffs, or mocks, the law. Its been used in English since the 1920s.
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:57:26 +0000
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