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flaunt (flônt)

intransitive verb

  1. to make a gaudy, ostentatious, conspicuous, impudent, or defiant display
  2. to flutter or wave freely

Etymology: 15th & 16th c., prob. < dial. flant, to strut coquettishly, akin to Norw flanta < ON flana, run back and forth < IE *plano- < base *pla-, broad, flat, spread out > Gr planos, wandering

transitive verb

  1. to show off proudly, defiantly, or impudently to flaunt one's guilt
  2. flout: usage objected to by many

noun

Archaic the act of flaunting

flaunt Related Forms
flaunt·ingly adverb Rareflaunty adjective
flaunt Synonyms

flaunt

v.

vaunt, display, parade, show off; see boast 1. See syn. study at show.

flaunt Usage Examples

Object

  • wealth: The automobile, more than almost any other possession, allowed people to flaunt wealth.
  • rule: However, in what is appearing to be a power struggle, two entities are flaunting these rules.
  • fact: I find it makes me feel much better to flaunt this fact in front of them whenever I can.
  • law: POLICE have warned they will be taking a no-nonsense approach to people flaunting firework laws in the build-up to bonfire night celebrations.
  • convention: French filmmaker Bruno Dumont deliberately flaunts nearly every convention of the horror genre in the experimental Twentynine Palms.
  • cash: Don't go into your money belt in public places and don't flaunt cash.

Used with why or when

  • what: It was as if suddenly, at his most vulnerable moment, humanity was determined to flaunt what he had missed most of all.

Modifying Another Word

  • n't: Don't go into your money belt in public places and do n't flaunt cash.
  • not: Democrats persuade and do not flaunt power in a military fashion.
  • also: Its design also flaunts more pronounced cubist angles to discriminate it from Samsung's army of black sliders.
  • openly: The Police have taken to openly flaunting their firepower.
  • never: Never flaunt your valuables in public or you'll be inviting trouble.
  • much: Well, I gave it a 3-star read because: he flaunted too much on Flaubert and his likes.

Preposition: in

  • front: We need his vigor and long hours of course; we just don't want it flaunted in front of us.
flaunt Quotes

   When you've got it, flaunt it.

—Anonymous

That's it baby. If you've got it, flaunt it.

—Brooks, Mel pseudonym of  Melvin Kaminsky

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