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Flaunt

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Noun

1. flaunt

the act of displaying something ostentatiously

Example Sentences:
'his behavior was an outrageous flaunt'

Verb

2. flash, flaunt, ostentate, show off, swank

display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously

Example Sentences:
'he showed off his new sports car'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Flaunt

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verb
1. 
to display (possessions, oneself, etc) ostentatiously; show off
2. 
to wave or cause to wave freely; flutter
noun
3. 
the act of flaunting

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Flaunt

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verb intransitive
1. 
to make a gaudy, ostentatious, conspicuous, impudent, or defiant display
2. 
to flutter or wave freely
verb transitive
3. 
to show off proudly, defiantly, or impudently
to flaunt one's guilt
4. 
flout
usage objected to by many
noun
5.  Archaic
the act of flaunting

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Flaunt

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v. flaunt·ed, flaunt·ing, flaunts
v.tr.
1. To exhibit ostentatiously or shamelessly: flaunts his trendy clothes; flaunts his knowledge about music. See Synonyms at show.
2. Usage Problem To ignore or disregard (a rule, for example) openly or scornfully.
v.intr.
1. To show oneself off or move in an ostentatious way: "A tortoiseshell butterfly flaunted across the window" (Virginia Woolf).
2. To wave grandly: pennants flaunting in the wind.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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