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Definition of vaunt in English: vauntverb vɔːnt [with object]usually as adjective vauntedBoast about or praise (something), especially excessively. 吹嘘；夸耀 the much vaunted information superhighway 被大肆夸耀的信息高速公路。 Example sentencesExamples - The modern U.S. military is vaunted as an all-volunteer force, but the truth is more complex.
- Despite some good moments, her much vaunted collaboration with Jack White doesn't quite do it for me.
- His much vaunted £3 billion investment in automated warehouses did nothing to help product availability.
- And the weather is playing havoc with the much vaunted weather forecasting system here.
- Celtic's much vaunted three-man back line was soon spread out and scared to death by Porto's four-pronged attack.
- For all of our much vaunted independence, scratch an American of Anglo descent and you'll find a bit of a Briton.
- On the contrary, it chose to launch the report with a massive media and public relations campaign vaunting the scope, credibility and prestige of the Commission and its authors.
- There are also few examples of her much vaunted genius.
- The Barrowsiders would probably be satisfied to put up a good performance against this much vaunted Laois side.
- The economy emerged yesterday as a key battleground in the British general election with Labour vaunting its financial competence while the opposition Conservatives promised hefty tax cuts.
- So much for the much vaunted transparency and accountability policy.
- As a result, his much vaunted pacifism may have to undergo a rethink.
- I think Howard's much vaunted political antennae may be well out of tune on this one.
- Whoever wins the balloting will govern a country whose vaunted economic recovery is starting to fray.
- In his first editorial, John Bird wrote: ‘We vaunt nothing beyond the determination that no effort be spared to make the journal a first-class family newspaper.’
- More than any other area of genetics, then, the beneficial possibilities of gene therapy have been much vaunted.
- It contrived to be both firmly capitalist and proudly working-class in character; hand in hand with big business but vaunting an anti-establishment stance.
- Many of the books were written by wine merchants, often criticizing the practices of their colleagues, or vaunting their own specialities.
- Even the country's much vaunted success in the IT industry needs to be put in perspective, he says.
- The book's dust jacket vaunts this as ‘a masterpiece of modern political biography, written by one of Britain's leading historians'.
Synonyms boast about, brag about, make much of, crow about, gloat over, give oneself airs about, exult in, parade, flaunt, show off, flourish acclaim, esteem, revere, extol, celebrate informal show off about, flash rare laud
Derivativesnoun ˈvɔːntə adjectiveˈvɔːntɪŋˈvɔntɪŋ Of a boastful nature. she expresses vaunting literary ambition Example sentencesExamples - The overawed announcer introduced Welles as a mythical being and told listeners to imagine a combination of Baron Munchausen and Alice in Wonderland: a man who was at once a vaunting fabulist and an ingenuous child.
- After a brief prologue, the fighting characters advance and introduce themselves, or are introduced, in vaunting rhymes.
- There is a vaunting national self-confidence that almost amounts to arrogance.
adverb It is as if he caught a glimpse of a way to resolve the traumas - of race, allegiance, identity, inequality - that have beset America since it declared itself, vauntingly, impossibly, ‘the land of the free’.
OriginLate Middle English: the noun a shortening of obsolete avaunt 'boasting, a boast'; the verb (originally in the sense 'use boastful language') from Old French vanter, from late Latin vantare, based on Latin vanus 'vain, empty'. Rhymesavaunt, daunt, flaunt, gaunt, haunt, jaunt, taunt Definition of vaunt in US English: vauntverb [with object]usually as adjective vauntedBoast about or praise (something), especially excessively. 吹嘘；夸耀 the much vaunted information superhighway 被大肆夸耀的信息高速公路。 Example sentencesExamples - Whoever wins the balloting will govern a country whose vaunted economic recovery is starting to fray.
- On the contrary, it chose to launch the report with a massive media and public relations campaign vaunting the scope, credibility and prestige of the Commission and its authors.
- More than any other area of genetics, then, the beneficial possibilities of gene therapy have been much vaunted.
- Despite some good moments, her much vaunted collaboration with Jack White doesn't quite do it for me.
- There are also few examples of her much vaunted genius.
- The Barrowsiders would probably be satisfied to put up a good performance against this much vaunted Laois side.
- Celtic's much vaunted three-man back line was soon spread out and scared to death by Porto's four-pronged attack.
- And the weather is playing havoc with the much vaunted weather forecasting system here.
- Even the country's much vaunted success in the IT industry needs to be put in perspective, he says.
- For all of our much vaunted independence, scratch an American of Anglo descent and you'll find a bit of a Briton.
- So much for the much vaunted transparency and accountability policy.
- The book's dust jacket vaunts this as ‘a masterpiece of modern political biography, written by one of Britain's leading historians'.
- In his first editorial, John Bird wrote: ‘We vaunt nothing beyond the determination that no effort be spared to make the journal a first-class family newspaper.’
- It contrived to be both firmly capitalist and proudly working-class in character; hand in hand with big business but vaunting an anti-establishment stance.
- As a result, his much vaunted pacifism may have to undergo a rethink.
- The economy emerged yesterday as a key battleground in the British general election with Labour vaunting its financial competence while the opposition Conservatives promised hefty tax cuts.
- His much vaunted £3 billion investment in automated warehouses did nothing to help product availability.
- I think Howard's much vaunted political antennae may be well out of tune on this one.
- The modern U.S. military is vaunted as an all-volunteer force, but the truth is more complex.
- Many of the books were written by wine merchants, often criticizing the practices of their colleagues, or vaunting their own specialities.
Synonyms acclaim, esteem, revere, extol, celebrate acclaimed, celebrated, admired, highly rated, lionized, revered, honoured, esteemed, exalted, lauded, extolled, flaunted, touted, well thought of, well received, acknowledged
OriginLate Middle English: the noun a shortening of obsolete avaunt ‘boasting, a boast’; the verb (originally in the sense ‘use boastful language’) from Old French vanter, from late Latin vantare, based on Latin vanus ‘vain, empty’. |