to parade
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3.9
- verb
- /pəˈreɪd/
:
presumir de
- But let me guess, did he parade it around, you ask?
Imagine for a second if George Soros were parading around with Barack Obama or Joe Biden.
- Imagine for a second if George Soros were parading around with Barack Obama or Joe Biden.
- That's driven by bloody women too, parading themselves.
- These people want to muzzle your kid all day at school while they parade around massless at dinners and the Met Gala and so on.
- They are also, crucially, mechanisms for parading and legitimating succession.
- We have a right to avoid it, though not to parade the avoidance.
- So we had one or two visits from social but they were literally just door knocks and she'd parade us all out and we were all OK and that was it.
Examples
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As far as Hollingworth was concerned, science had no business parading tradition and opinion as scientific fact.
Academic text (1990) -
"All right, stand there," she said, and she started parading up and down again.
Fiction book (1992) -
Love does not parade itself.
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To parade his authority in North Fork.
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Not any of this plastic nonsense that you all parade around with out there.
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I'm going parading before it's too late.
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"We'll drink whiskey at the Tick," she went on, "and parade back home to Lucy's."
Fiction book (2000) -
He's a pop star parading around as a rapper.
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He's always parading around in front of them like a rooster.
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He loves to parade his new sports car in front of his friends.
Synonyms
389
1.0
To walk in a steady, organized way with other people
216
3.2
To act proudly to get attention or praise
68
5.1
To wear or show something to get attention
62
5.7
To show something in a very obvious way to get attention
41
5.5
To walk proudly to attract attention
28
4.8
To walk proudly with lively steps to get attention
5
4.9
To wave something in a dramatic way to attract attention
3
5.4
To walk slowly in public to be seen or enjoy the place
1
7.5
Act in a flashy way to get attention
1
8.1
To dress or act in a very showy way to attract attention
1
7.5
To behave so others notice you in an embarrassing way
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
1
7.4
Make someone less happy or excited by pointing out problems
Compounds
How Showy
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb parade comes from the old word parare meaning 'to prepare' or 'decorate'. A helpful way to remember is that to parade yourself is to make yourself ready to be seen, so it means to walk or show off to get attention.