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fly in the face of

verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026

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go against

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Variants

5 surface forms

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

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