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fly in the face of

verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026

go against

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Classifications

Cognitive

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Responsibility

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Automation

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Variants

synonym
fly in the teeth of
pasttense
flied in the face of
presentparticiple
flying in the face of
thirdpersonsingular
flies in the face of
pastparticiple
flied in the face of