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Vaunted

[vawn-tid, vahn-]

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adjective

praised boastfully or excessively: the vaunted beauties of Paris.

Origin:
1625–35; vaunt + -ed²

Related forms

self-vaunt·ed, adjective

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Example Sentences

His wrist refuses to instill his volleys with their vaunted sting.

Paul could have conceivably busted out one of his vaunted anti-Fed tirades on the subject of religious politicking.

Many of the vaunted new democracies are riddled with corruption, and weakly led.

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His wrist refuses to instill his volleys with their vaunted sting.

Paul could have conceivably busted out one of his vaunted anti-Fed tirades on the subject of religious politicking.

Many of the vaunted new democracies are riddled with corruption, and weakly led.

Controversial discoveries suggest that the roots of our vaunted intellect run far deeper than is commonly believed.

The game's vaunted offline and online cooperative gameplay modes have been shaved down.

Romero's vaunted zombie cycle is an excellent freakout of a movie.

Even the vaunted medical degrees are not working out via debt vs potential income.

But trading outfits can lose many times that amount in the blink of an eye, even with vaunted leadership.

The vaunted f/12 lens struggled finding initial focus in our birthday cake scene.

The regional block failed to dispatch its own vaunted force, the only step likely to end the conflict in the short run.

Semel's vaunted dealmaking skills seem to have deserted him.

Its vaunted parliament, banks and judiciary hardly exist.

As for the vaunted hub strategy, many within the company viewed it as little more than a press release.

The tension between the government's vaunted localism and the realities of planning reform is a sore point.

He is the eighth head of the vaunted research arm of the.

Each vaunted scientific breakthrough brings with it new challenges to our health system.

No, it wasn't crushed by bills for its vaunted welfare state.

Instrumentalists, when not chasing that vaunted lyricism, have long striven.

Britain's much vaunted social and political stability had been bought at a price.

Japan's much vaunted efficiency in production becomes irrelevant if no one at home is out there buying.

I've been thinking about this in relation to the much vaunted lie detecting brain scans.

Atop its vaunted cliffs, the historic section is really a village, belted by walls three miles around.

If they are really not vaunted climbers, they are even less celebrated sprinters.

Its vaunted invention of gunpowder had spluttered into firecrackers.

With the workers' vaunted stock options nosediving in.

Obasanjo's much vaunted anti-corruption campaign concentrates only on critics of his government.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to speak vaingloriously of; boast of: to vaunt one's achievements.

verb (used without object)

to speak boastfully; brag.

noun

a boastful action or utterance.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English vaunten < Middle French vanter to boast < Late Latin vānitāre, frequentative of *vānāre, derivative of Latin vānus vain. See vanity

Related forms

vaunt·er, noun

vaunt·ing·ly, adverb

out·vaunt, verb (used with object)

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Word Origin & History

vaunt

mid-14c., from M.Fr. vanter "to praise, speak highly of," from L.L. vanitare "to boast," frequentative of L. vanare "to utter empty words," from vanus "idle, empty" (see vain).

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