How To Use Flaunt In A Sentence

  • Even though these involved rich Mexicans, it can happen at any time to extranjeros flaunting their wealth in a povert stricken town in a 3rd world country. San Miguel crime spree?
  • You don't flaunt your wealth in a courtroom. Times, Sunday Times
  • Does it matter if they have always been extremely thin and kind of flaunted it? I can't have ya'all thinking I'm such a nice person
  • For a man so vain about his face, why is he content to flaunt his wrinkly torso and pot belly? The Sun
  • It's considered gauche to flaunt your wealth. Times, Sunday Times
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  • Many respectable scholars flirt with this stage, and some seem to delight in flaunting their embrace of it; their more staid colleagues are usually indulgent. Did you know that Jews control the Washington Post? [Bumped.] - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
  • Smart lads, they hadn't flaunted the loot, bragged about the heist, or written a rap song memorializing the event.
  • Look at those hollyhocks, like pyramids of roses; those garlands of the convolvulus major of all colours, hanging around that tall pole, like the wreathy hop-bine; those magnificent dusky cloves, breathing of the Spice Islands; those flaunting double dahlias; those splendid scarlet geraniums, and those fierce and warlike flowers the tiger-lilies. Our Village
  • Luxury consumption is always connected with motivation of flaunt.
  • Electric lighting was such a powerful symbol of progress that early lighting fixtures proudly flaunted bare bulbs so that no one would dare mistake them for gaslights.
  • The most dull-witted, vulgar complaint about Gay Pride parades follows the form of ‘you don't see straight people running around with nipple clamps’ or ‘my wife doesn't dress up in latex and flaunt herself in the street ’, etc. and so forth.
  • What comes next is the matador and he approaches with his tight-assed, pouter-pigeon walk, flaunting his coleto, the pigtail that is the professional mark of a torero who has taken his alternativa and is no longer a novillero. There is no such thing as a bullfight
  • In the early days of electric lighting, fixtures intentionally flaunted naked bulbs so that no one could possibly mistake them for gas.
  • Leaving the cosmopolitan town of modern Cairo, the iron bridges, and the pretentious hotels, with their flaunting inscriptions, it imparts a sense of sudden peacefulness to pass along the large and rapid waters of this river, between the curtains of palm-trees on the banks, borne by a dahabiya where one is master and, if one likes, may be alone. Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
  • The use of gladiators became a way for the rich to flaunt their wealth and power? Times, Sunday Times
  • Trying to impress their former acquaintances, our ditzy heroines flaunt mobile phones. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is an attempt to bring us to a better understanding of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which the creationists - through willful ignorance - gleefully flaunt as their disproof of science.
  • Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer. A Study of Shakespeare
  • Rolando the Lasso, and flaunt on the flimsyfilmsies for to grig my collage juniorees who, though they flush fuchsia, are they octette and virginity in my shade but always my figurants. Finnegans Wake
  • He did not believe in flaunting his wealth.
  • But it is not to flaunt wealth that we are driving these cars. Times, Sunday Times
  • If I had assured her that she would be torn limb from limb, like an inconvincible aristocrat flaunting abroad during the early days of the French Revolution, she would have grown enthusiastic. The Mountebank
  • his behavior was an outrageous flaunt
  • Isabelle, in a slightly drunk and uninhibited state, flaunts her desire at being desired while Gerald trembles at her physical closeness.
  • I will mock the marly heavens, lamp the purple prairies, I will flaunt my deathless banners down the far, unhouseled lands.
  • For age, which naturally and unavoidably is but one remove from death, and consequently should have nothing about it but what looks like a decent preparation for it, scarce ever appears of late days but in the high mode, the flaunting garb, and utmost gaudery of youth; with clothes as ridiculously, and as much in the fashion, as the person that wears them is usually grown out of it. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
  • For the wealthy lady, the proper layer of lingerie was important and the corsetier and couturier one purchased one’s lingerie from was a status symbol, its purchase acknowledging that the lady had a special someone for whom she flaunted her undergarments. Edwardians Unbuttoned | Edwardian Promenade
  • By a chi-square test, this has a 99% probability of indicating an increased confusion of flaunt for flout. Flout good taste; flaunt your excesses « Motivated Grammar
  • Carnegy loved pleasure mightily, painted her face "devilishly," and drove in the park flauntingly. Royalty Restored
  • Who can forget the sight of him flaunting his wealth by setting fire to $100 bills? The Sun
  • The movie gleefully flaunts the fact that it is gorgeously overdone.
  • Under the radiance from the lighted lanai, ere entering the irritating movement of life again to which he belonged, he paused to stare, scarcely seeing, at a flaunt of display of scarlet double-hibiscus blooms. THE KANAKA SURF
  • Don't waste your time proving how smart you are or flaunting your listing in the social register.
  • And (we may well wonder in reflex) what the hell is that swound flaunted for reference? Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound
  • It is not just about owning the painting and flaunting it but more about displaying it with style and the right interiors.
  • He realizes that may sound a bit flaunty, so he immediately says, This is number one of 162. Opening Day: Let the season grind begin
  • But how can a woman who opens up a school for girls in Africa, tries her luck at a vegan diet, and even launched a (failed) philanthropical reality TV show, flaunt the benefits of owning a private jet? Ariston Anderson: Oprah "Community Organizes" for Capitalism
  • That they also sport flamboyant blooms is a bonus - their winged flowers flaunt themselves atop three to five foot plants.
  • She wore her hair in a fierce high bun, flaunting her newly banging do with a smile.
  • Refreshingly, the paintings do not proclaim their importance or flaunt their intelligence.
  • The OED’s first attestation of flaunt to mean flout is in 1923, so apparently once the error appeared, it took off like gangbusters. Flout good taste; flaunt your excesses « Motivated Grammar
  • The local grocery in Brandon, Manitoba, sports 12,000 food products and flaunts 56 brands of breakfast cereal.
  • The pyracantha bushes flaunt the screaming orange berries, the deciduous hollies sport sparkling red ones on bare stems.
  • If i had the money or networking to make a perfume then i sure as hell would do it and then lay naked while some hott as* model sprayed it on me and call that perfume “sex in a bottle” meow. jk. but really shes hot and has a hot body so flaunt it while it looks good. Jennifer Aniston topless again (to advertise her perfume) | EW.com
  • Here corrupt officials - and the plutocrats they enriched through questionable business practices - are making little effort to hide their ill-gotten gains, but actually flaunt them.
  • Then bucks flaunt tiger-lily ties and watchet suits, Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country
  • Rather than flaunting his authority, he is more of a learned peer, and beer drinker, than overlord.
  • Yet her effete husband paraded his catamites in front of her; Piers Gaveston even flaunted the Queen's wedding jewellery on his person.
  • Just as a beautiful woman was a prize that a man could parade before his fellows, the demireps flaunted their own conquests to each other. Dearly Beloved
  • Anyway, very few flowers in my yard flaunt the single colours - bright yellow, soft pink, browny maroon, crimson - black - of my original sowing.
  • So I'll marcel my hair and flaunt it in people's face that I'm not a man, because I can't carry the emotional load.
  • A number of the women had time to develop their minds in between flaunting their bodies, more like geisha girls, or the hetaerae of ancient Greece, than modern-day porn stars.
  • Only to the extent that the norm in everything is always "flaunted". Blacks vs. gays.
  • She flaunted her body to her suitors (and indeed to others) but evaded physical contact. October Books 19) Doctor Who - Slipback
  • Don't worry about what other people think! As my grandmother always used to say, 'if you've got it, flaunt it'!
  • The beneficiaries were profiteers from war industries whose boldly flaunted new wealth intensified social tensions.
  • If she wears expensive clothes, she is criticised for flaunting her wealth. Times, Sunday Times
  • The use of gladiators became a way for the rich to flaunt their wealth and power? Times, Sunday Times
  • He's got a lot of money but he doesn't flaunt it.
  • I have flaunted these truisms before you in order to exorcise that modern slang of yours which is more false than the overstrained forms of a feudal France. The Kempton-Wace Letters
  • Abstract: Luxury consumption is always connected with motivation of flaunt.
  • Her bold look, denuded bosom, and flaunty air, were sufficient to impress at once our heroine with an unfavourable opinion of her; and after she had retired with Rosse she expressed her dislike to him, and enquired whether she was not right in her conjectures. Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund
  • A family passed, decked out in their Whitsun flaunty. At Swim, Two Boys
  • The positioning so close to their offices made it seem that it was being flaunted in front of them. The Sun
  • There was a certain insolent quality in her beauty, as if it flaunted itself somewhat too defiantly in the beholder's eye. Further Chronicles of Avonlea
  • It's exhibitionism to flaunt wealth so blatantly.
  • To round off the festivities, there were models flaunting designer wears during the fashion parade.
  • This wasn't just a case of a few New York highbrows flaunting their refinement in reproach of Hollywood vulgarity.
  • I also knew that the photos I saw of WW2, i.e. the big one, had posters of Betty Grable in a swim suit flaunting her you know what (oh my), and the B52's with the caricatures of skimpily clad ladies almost showing their breastisies, were so awful. I have always enjoyed your magazine and would love for my 11 year old(bow hunting and fishing pro) son to read and learn from it
  • It is a deeply incisive explanation of how we all begin, how we plod on, and how we approach the end -- we are always looking for a theory or an idea to bring cohesion to the chaos that is life, whether it be the career we choose (or reject) or the spouse we adore (or don't) or the label we flaunt ("free-spirit," "dependable," "respectable"). Nina Sankovitch: The Story of Life: How It All Began by Penelope Lively
  • Her lips were a red of the same tint, as was the polonaise she was so daintily flaunting - over which, she wore a black cloak.
  • Others have called him arrogant, for flaunting his millionaire lifestyle.
  • He'd love to flaunt the weapon like that under the very nose of the detective, further establishing his intellectual superiority over the dumb cop.
  • Behind him flaunted the great gonfanon of Spain, and trump and cymbal heralded his approach. Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book V.
  • It is sad that Leonard's bureau is allowing these flaunting of codes that hurts the densification mantra. Portland neighbors vs. apartment bunkers, Round 938 (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • They flaunted painted lips and waved hair and worked as hard as the men. Bomber
  • Critics say the Wiesn has warped from a quaint Volksfest into a cultural wasteland: women in lederhosen, the occasional man in a dirndl, and celebrities such as Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton flaunting designer renditions that cost thousands of dollars. At Oktoberfest, a Controversy Brews Over Racy Designer Dirndls
  • It flaunts its power to bar people from flights.
  • Plus, she thinks that I'm flaunting whatever relationship I have with him in front of her, and basically has a real qualm about us being tactile.
  • Don't worry about what other people think! As my grandmother always used to say, 'if you've got it, flaunt it'!
  • She cut her hair short and bleached it blond, flaunted cast-off clothes and vivid red lipstick, shaved her eyebrows and replaced them with gold streaks.
  • We're just peacocks flaunting our tail feathers.
  • E-card sites flaunt the day tempting the browsers to send wishes across to their pals for a merry season blooming with happiness.
  • In all the shoots, she flaunts designer wear, including jewellery and fabulous clothes.
  • The Canadian pop star flaunted his impressively toned bod in skintight wetsuit bottoms while hitting the beach on holiday in Hawaii. The Sun
  • The rise of raunch - the explicit flaunting of one's sexuality - is all about how we've been persuaded to market ourselves, to advertise our desirability.
  • Now you know, Terence, if you haven't forgot -- and if you have, I'll just remind you -- that there's a flaunty sort of young woman at the poteen shop there, who calls herself Mrs O'Rourke, wife to a Corporal Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
  • Thousands of complaints pour in annually to the FBI and civilian groups about impostors flaunting store-bought medals. ... Media Coverage September 2009
  • But they will not be bought by those looking to flaunt their wealth. Times, Sunday Times
  • With faux compassion, they say – well, this is what happens if you "flaunt" your sexuality by behaving like everybody else. Johann Hari: Why Is Anti-Gay Violence Soaring in Britain?
  • For those planning to show off that washboard stomach and flaunt those abs this summer, ice tea is definitely good news, says Shardul Sinha, Director of Chisel Fitness Centre in Bangalore.
  • His father did not like to flaunt his discoveries.
  • Everywhere she flaunted her yellow banner and trailed the purple of her mantle, that was paler in the thistle-heads, took on strength in the first opening asters, and glowed and burned in the ironwort. Freckles
  • All the rest -- acres of pasture, cleared and grassed, stretches of fertile ground, blocks of noble timber still uncut -- had passed through the hands of mortgage holders, through bank transfers, by devious and tortuous ways, until the title rested in Horace Gower, -- who had promptly built the showy summer house on Cradle Bay to flaunt in his face, so old Poor Man's Rock
  • Collectors of modern art flaunted the canons of conventional taste, incurring ridicule and criticism and, although some of them were known to one another, many collected in isolation.
  • And the house flagrantly flaunts fortune cookies that contain ‘aphorisms’ instead of portents of kismet and fame (I urge you all to bitterly complain).
  • You don't flaunt your wealth in a courtroom. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet overall, the summer school flaunted a dismissive attitude toward folk history.
  • As the results of the election were announced, a twitter message from Bandar Abbas, a port city in the south of Iran, read (Raye ma ra dozdidand, bahash darand poz mida) “They have stolen our votes and they are flaunting our stolen votes!” Shoar in Iran: The sounds from the street
  • Lured by its 'classy'-but-torrid R&B vocals and designer-label flaunting, champagne swigging, no-trainers-allowed ethos of living large, much of Jungle's black audience has defected to this most recent dancefloor mutation. The Wire
  • I can't hang with the girls who run to the bathroom to apply lipstick every five minutes, but I can appreciate those who flaunt their feminine wiles in other ways.
  • LOOK through any women's mag today and it will be packed full of celebs flaunting fit figures and toned abs. The Sun
  • It is unlikely that one passing by casually would even notice the little flower, and other flowers by comparison are "loftier," and they "are flaunting nigh. Archive 2009-02-01
  • Girls are always flaunting themselves at me and flirting.
  • Who can forget the sight of him flaunting his wealth by setting fire to $100 bills? The Sun
  • Not only teenagers but many high flying execs who flaunt a number of mobiles casually are very poor phone conversationalists.
  • Her father held to the notion that vast wealth was only fun when you got to flaunt it, and he had spared no expense equipping her Guard. TREASON KEEP
  • Nothing but the point of her poop remained, and there stood the stern and steadfast Don, cap-a-pie in his glistening black armor, immovable as a man of iron, while over him the flag, which claimed the empire of both worlds, flaunted its gold aloft and upwards in the glare of the tropic noon. Westward Ho!
  • All because s/he knows where they're going, recognizes that "mundane" is the fate of a business filled with "normal," and has the cojones to flaunt the HR/MBA guidelines because of her/his burning desire to achieve greatness. House rules
  • Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer. A Study of Shakespeare
  • And if they are flaunting themselves, it also speaks of their new-found confidence.
  • It's the 134-year tradition of flaunting one rule - ‘Passengers should not talk to the motorman/gripman while the car is in motion’.
  • That she now looks like a kindly old grandmother only heightens the jolt and joke of her sauciness, which may be why she's even more crazily adored than when she flaunted a whisk and an outsize libido as Sue Ann Nivens on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" or found fresh poetry in daffiness as Rose Nylund in "The Golden Girls. NYT > Home Page
  • he openly flaunted his affection for his sister
  • She openly flaunted her affair with the senator.
  • By the second quarter of the century, dwellings in Paris flaunted brilliant crystal chandeliers and small, exquisitely carved marble mantels with large mirror panels, or painted overmantels called trumeaus.
  • The play is God's gift to women and Mesdames Marie-Claire and Sandra don't half take their chance and flaunt it.
  • The physicians shuddered to see a fledgling organization that was supposed to be dependent on them flaunt such trappings. THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician
  • The canals were packed with gay barges, houses flaunted in bunting and floral decorations, and a festive air was prevalent in every quarter of the city. Jacqueline of the Carrier-Pigeons
  • But it is not to flaunt wealth that we are driving these cars. Times, Sunday Times
  • Venetian patrician society not only tolerated but flaunted courtesans, who star in some of the best Venetian paintings.
  • She acts annoyed by this strumpet disrupting her peace, but really she's annoyed by the flaunting of youth and indiscretion.
  • Sam Tsoutsouvas, as Theseus, flaunts his habitual love affair with his overripe voice with an orotundity that reeks of self-adulation.
  • Hookers stood on most corners, flaunting themselves to any who passed by.
  • Employees are urged to be discreet in their spending and not to flaunt their wealth. This reminder normally comes during the year-end bonus time.
  • You don't dress provocatively, and you don't go around flaunting yourself.
  • The sculptures seem like bellicose battleships, flaunting jagged-ribbed fins and sawtooth incisors.
  • The colours are deftly placed, the flaunting red of the carnation answering the scarlet of the nasturtiums straggling on the plinth below.
  • The paper could position itself on the forefront of a bold initiative, encouraging the growth of a blossoming illiterati who flaunt their ignorance and inability to absorb the written word.
  • Many of the returnees get the best jobs through social or political connections, and many flaunt their money and automobiles.
  • It is a brilliant study, full of "onion atoms" as Sydney Smith's famous salad, and we flaunt it merrily in the face of those who are frequently crapehanging and dirging that we have no sparkling young C.estertons and Rebecca Wests and J.C. Squires this side of Queenstown harbor. Mince Pie
  • What we have is people sticking their nose in something that does not affect them, and then complaining about it being "flaunted" when homosexuals push back. Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles
  • Now our newly potent man starts flaunting his favour and throws his weight around.
  • Despite the best efforts of Hollywood's image-spinners, she refuses to play the game, preferring to relax, ignore the hype, and flaunt her coltish figure.
  • Perhaps most important, MTVhive.com has launched another new program, "Weird Vibes," that flaunts MTV's vintage format: music videos, interviews with indie and underground artists, and a title sequence lifted right out of 1986. Music Television Makes Online Bet
  • Over the past few days, they have packed shoulder to shoulder at rallies, waiting patiently under a punishing sun, some of them flaunting hilarious posters of the mzee, or old man, as he calls himself, with his face superimposed on an Incredible Hulk-like body. NYT > Global Home
  • Now, you know, Terence, if you haven't forgot -- and if you have, I'll just remind you -- that there's a flaunty sort of young woman at the poteen shop there, who calls herself Mrs O'Rourke, wife to a corporal Peter Simple
  • The flagrant flaunting of wealth amidst the dire poverty of the mass of the population is helping fuel social and political opposition.
  • He was condemned by a local priest for staying overnight with an unmarried woman, flaunting his association with her at a bullfight, and was thereupon murdered by an angry mob.
  • Asha was somehow a mystery to them, an exotic girl compared to the flaunting and preppy girls, with her striking hair and sparkling green eyes.
  • He's got a lot of money but he doesn't flaunt it.
  • He's catnip to women but never flaunts it.
  • Abstract: Luxury consumption is always connected with motivation of flaunt.
  • Mainstream films, in the end, always look like lifestyle advertisements, flaunting cover-model babes, expensive cars and other trappings of the monied classes.
  • Verily not, said Habundia, nor why thou art not clad in the fair green gown which thou didst broider; for whiles I have seen the witch flaunting it on the wooden ugly body of her, and thou wouldst not wear it after she had cursed it with her foulness. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  • Might it have something to do with the fact that reviewers are almost exclusively authors themselves, and perhaps more concerned with promoting their own thematic preferences and flaunting their prose stylistics than actually writing an accurate, even-handed review? Go easy on John Metcalf (despite… you know…)
  • It was funny, most girls he knew were out, flaunting themselves, baring every bit of flesh that they could get away with, without getting arrested.
  • She openly flaunted her affair with the senator.
  • It's considered gauche to flaunt your wealth. Times, Sunday Times
  • To declare enthusiasm for feminist ideals is almost a new mode of macho, a way to flaunt an invulnerable virility.
  • Or will you lie during still noons up among the farmers 'fields where myriad bandrol corn-poppies flaunt over your head, and stain your finger-tips with the red berries that hang like globes of light in the palace-gardens of mites and midges, soaking yourself in hot sunshine and south-winds and heavy aromatic earth-scents? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
  • India but it certainly needs a boost from Believe it or not, but the whole 'bikini top' n 'skimpy shorts' avatar in short - flaunting Rani Mukerji's hot new bod wasn't her idea. WN.com - Articles related to Hooda will lead next Cong govt: Sonia
  • You don't flaunt your wealth in a courtroom. Times, Sunday Times
  • How dare he? she thought, after more or less flaunting that - that woman in front of me.
  • They are big brash symbols of conspicuous consumption, a way for flash men and women with a lot of cash to flaunt their wealth.
  • They flaunted painted lips and waved hair and worked as hard as the men. Bomber
  • Its central character's evolution as a ladykiller prompts a series of hilarious scenes that flaunt the director's winning ear for dialogue.
  • Through the sea of green, lofty tree-ferns thrust their great delicate fronds, and the lehua flaunted its scarlet blossoms. Chapter 8
  • Of course, Scarlett Johansson regularly flaunts her hourglass curves, but lately she's also revealing her elegant neckline in asymmetrical dresses. Celeb Style: Flaunt what you got whatever your size; video
  • I just thought you may be interested that he is deceased, and can no longer ride on the coat tails of REAL heroes, none of whom we have known have "flaunted" their heroism, Purple Hearts, or Heroes or Villains?
  • HERE'S BEYONCE flaunting her famous curves in a figure-hugging gold dress while filming a video for her upcoming tour. The Sun
  • The symbol of the failure of East Germany swiftly became the Trabant, the small, unglamorous, underpowered national car of East Germany, which looked so pathetic next to the powerful Mercedes and BMWs that flaunted the economic power of West Germany. Zero-Sum Future
  • The complete bastardization of this artifact's transcription combined with agrammatical flights of interpretative whimsy are not becoming of someone flaunting a doctorate. Religion in Ancient Etruria: A comedy of errors that keeps on giving
  • If she wears expensive clothes, she is criticised for flaunting her wealth. Times, Sunday Times
  • But, if I'm hearing the women of the U.S. ski team correctly, they have a message for feminists opposed to the idea of flaunting a hard body: Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
  • Certainly, the outdoor nature of the shoot offers up some unwanted ambiance (overly loud seagulls, microphone-flaunting winds), but this is not the reason for any aural concern.
  • They are big brash symbols of conspicuous consumption, a way for flash men and women with a lot of cash to flaunt their wealth.
  • It's open late, it flaunts its exclusivity and it gets regular plugs in the gay press (so it's a club).
  • I couldn't help but wonder why the other day all those females were flaunting themselves at him despite his attitude towards them.
  • To flaunt is to make an ostentatious or defiant display: She flaunted her beauty. Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
  • She was then regarded as debutante with no great beauty to flaunt but who, in the words of a fellow deb, ‘could really turn on the headlights’ when needed.
  • When less gifted footballers shamelessly flaunted a playboy lifestyle, he embraced the role of husband and father. The Sun
  • There has been another spectator, in the person of a woman in the common shop; the lowest of the low; dirty, unbonneted, flaunting, and slovenly.
  • It may occur to some hypercritical person to suggest that the English language has frequently been murdered in my den, and that it is its horrid corse which is playing havoc at my home, crying out to heaven and flaunting its bloody wounds in the face of my conscience, but I can pass such an aspersion as that by with contemptuous silence, for even if it were true it could not be set down as wilful assassination on my part, since no sane person who needs a language as much as I do would ever in cold blood kill any one of the many that lie about us. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
  • That’s weird, because the similarity between flaunt and flout is phonetic. 2008 February « Motivated Grammar
  • One TV campaign features a glamorous woman flaunting flamboyant designer clothes in a subway car.
  • Residents told this newspaper that the family had a relative from the United States (US) staying with them who "flaunted" gold jewellery openly. Stabroek News
  • It's enough that I am shamelessly flaunting my cootch now. Remember The Dullest Blog in the World?
  • Thus today one flaunts a G-string as if it were a Victoria Cross.
  • It seems to flaunt a certain tatty extravagance, like worn plush furnishings in a cobwebby drawing room.
  • He was dressed in a tight white T-shirt that flaunted his abs, and his muscular arms.
  • He flaunts his riches like everyone in the business.
  • Whether you are the type who goes for flaunting traditional bling, or a non-traditionalist who got engaged with a soda can pop-top, there is something beautifully symbolic about the tradition of exchanging rings to symbolize a long-lasting commitment to your partner. GREEN WEDDING GUIDE: Eco Wedding Rings | Inhabitat
  • The way she flaunted her sex appeal was enamoring. When the Truth Lies
  • To match her big hair, pompadoured R&B singer Janelle Monae flaunted both personality and pipes as she gave the first great performance of the show with her single "Cold War. Lady Antebellum, Arcade Fire take home top prizes at 53rd Annual Grammy Awards
  • The larger of the two, Arlen, comes across as an insecure bully, flaunting his juvenile snake tattoo and badgering Muldrow with idle threats.
  • Anonymous said ... what these women are "flaunting" is not their record collections but their EGOS. When something's not as cool as you thought it was.
  • It's considered gauche to flaunt your wealth. Times, Sunday Times
  • He flaunted and dramatised his homosexuality in his life and work and became ever more recklessly indiscreet.
  • His behavior was an outrageous flaunt.
  • Others with her pianistic skills might flaunt it on grand technocratic opuses. Times, Sunday Times
  • Displays of novelty that I flaunted until I read Francisco de Quevodo, and the theory of rejecting the combination of "cuidado" and "enamorado" blew me away. Yoani Sanchez: A Manual or a Sonnet?
  • She not only openly flaunts her unearned wealth, but also uses her assets to seize eyeballs from her less fortunate sisters.
  • Sunday coat's getting quite shabby, so it is, and Tam Macalister has a new suit, she was noticing -- the Macalisters are always flaunting in their braws! The House with the Green Shutters
  • You may call it flaunting, but in my case it was total cluelessness. When something's not as cool as you thought it was.
  • Critics say the Wiesn has warped from a quaint Volksfest into a cultural wasteland: women in lederhosen, the occasional man in a dirndl, and celebrities such as Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton flaunting designer renditions that cost thousands of dollars. At Oktoberfest, a Controversy Brews Over Racy Designer Dirndls
  • I don't know what many people are referring to when they describe them as wanting to "flaunt" it. Gay soldier: Obama's 'don't ask' pledge a reprinted IOU
  • Sure, she had been born with a silver spoon in her mouth, but she didn't brag about it or flaunt her money.
  • As I had been competitive and sporty all my life, editing a fanzine immediately became a race to find the scuzziest, most underground bands imaginable and flaunt them in front of my fellow editors' faces.
  • Antiochus was furious alike at what he termed the insolence of a handful of outlaws, and the cowardice of his picked troops, who had flaunted their banners and gone forth as if to assured victory, and had then fled like some gay-plumed bird before the swoop of the eagle. Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History

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