to vaunt
1
8.9
- verb
- /vɔnt/
- Archaic
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- The athlete loves to vaunt his record-breaking wins in interviews.
And these people were rather vaunting their all their charismatic gifts as status symbols.
- And these people were rather vaunting their all their charismatic gifts as status symbols.
Examples
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He often vaunts his achievements to impress his friends at parties.
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So she did not vaunt herself on account of the apparitions?
Fiction book (2002) -
He was not vaunting his ability; he was simply stating a fact.
Fiction book (1991) -
And these people were rather vaunting their all their charismatic gifts as status symbols.
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Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins.
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This last variety vaunts the claim—a claim shared by at least a hundred other puzzles—that it is the most difficult puzzle in the world.
Academic text (1998) -
Immediately after vaunting the rich room of her imagination, furnished with wit endowed by Nature herself, she apologizes for the "poor weak brain" of a woman.
Fiction book (1991) -
Can one imagine a more supine and pusillanimous role for what Senator Bradley vaunts as "the engine of democracy" than the Journal's ready concession that those doing business with China must turn a blind eye to such things?
Academic text (1995) -
In so doing, it vaunts a society that has shifted its sights from the generally pacified, no longer novel Indians toward the commerce that would find apt expression in the artifice of the Baroque.
Academic text (2004) -
During the speech, she vaunted the success of the charity event, highlighting the funds raised.
Synonyms
216
3.2
To act proudly to get attention or praise
191
2.7
To talk in a proud way about yourself or what you have
151
7.7
To talk proudly about achievements to make others admire you
96
3.1
To talk proudly about your achievements to impress people
65
6.1
To praise or advertise something strongly to make people want it
62
5.7
To show something in a very obvious way to get attention
30
7.7
To praise someone publicly in a formal way
26
5.6
To praise a person or thing too much, often with strong feeling
13
4.1
To say that something is better or more important than it really is
8
7.8
To say you are more important or successful than you really are
7
7.5
To talk proudly about things you have done
7
7.4
To praise something too much to make people want to buy it
7
4.9
Make something seem better than it really is
7
7.5
To praise someone or something very much
6
7.9
To brag in a way that annoys other people
5
4.5
Say very good things about someone or something
5
6.8
To speak loudly to try to impress or scare others while having little effect
4
5.8
Praise something more than it really deserves
1
7.8
To talk proudly about your own abilities or achievements
1
6.4
To praise someone too much to make them seem better
1
9.5
To promote something loudly and with exaggeration to get attention
1
6.4
To say too many good things about someone who does not deserve them
To talk proudly about your success in public
To say proud things to make yourself seem better than you are
To talk about yourself to show you are more important
To brag about what you have done
To show things in a way that makes people admire you
Antonyms
How Boastful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Vaunt began as an old French verb meaning 'to boast', so to vaunt something is to show it off or brag about it; that original sense explains why we use the verb for proud or excessive praise.