What's the difference between adulate and vaunt?

Adulate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To flatter in a servile way.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Riva, the oldest nominee ever for best actress category, has a very Gallic disdain for such public adulation.
  • (2) Customers at her plush boutique in central Cairo are offered a choice between chocolates coated with his face and others embossed with messages of adulation.
  • (3) It gave the occasion the feel of a testimonial, although some players warrant such adulation.
  • (4) Feminists, myself included, focused on the killer’s misogyny, his furious sense that women owed him something, that he had a right to whatever pleasure and adulation they could deliver.
  • (5) And in both introducing and summing up the debate, she along with many of her political peers currently receiving all the public adulation of the childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang spoke more intelligently, authoritatively and compassionately about mental health than I've heard from many a professional.
  • (6) Did he heed the global outpouring of adulation that elevated Mandela, who died aged 95 last December, to virtual sainthood?In that moment, did the president of Zimbabwe reflect on his own legacy and the cold judgment of history?
  • (7) Mohammed Samy's message was a succinct model of blind adulation: "Fairouz is my life."
  • (8) We softened up over the years, we have to stop being pussies.” When the Guardian also informs him about Trump’s plan to ban foreign Muslims entering the country, he says: “Sounds good to me.” Two sides to every coin But such signs that Trump is consolidating his advantage, that the more outrageous his pronouncements become the more his followers adulate him, tell only half the story.
  • (9) All issues of sentiment, underdoggery and fairytale glee aside, it is an achievement that deserves at least a slice of the adulation being lavished on the champions-elect.
  • (10) The hit prompted an outpouring of adulation for the Yankees captain, from press and public, and also a rash of conspiracy theories considering the pitch delivered by the Oriole’s Evan Meek.
  • (11) It’s like ‘not a third Bush, not a second Clinton’.” By forming the new group, Sagrans is aiming to harness some of this raw adulation towards a more professionalised outfit that can appeal to Democrats who pull some strings in national politics.
  • (12) Another avalanche of adulation is about to asphyxiate us; with glossy supplements on “The Greatest Reign”, exhibitions in royal palaces selling souvenir albums, and Douglas Hurd’s gushing biography, Elizabeth II: The Steadfast .
  • (13) And, if one is not at the zenith of adulation of the Pacific islanders who believe the Prince to be the penis-gourd-sporting Melanesian Messiah, then, at the very least, the example of Britain's longest-serving monarchal consort is deserving of our – and, more specifically, the Duchess of Cambridge's – interest.
  • (14) And yet the very craving for adulation, the need to chalk up successes, the deep, even cynical, pragmatism also predicted that Trump would have no stomach for Bannon’s reign of terror.
  • (15) Like a Mao in miniature, he seemed both to enjoy and have contempt for the adulation that surrounded him.
  • (16) He was greeted with adulation and reverence by Barack Obama, a joint session of Congress, the United Nations general assembly and, finally, the city of brotherly love.
  • (17) And I don’t believe that he could have coped with the adulation of fans for very long.
  • (18) The adulation in Kosovo is all the more striking for the contrast to its object's reputation in his home country, where, following the invasion of Iraq, the Blair name is a brand so toxic the Labour party goes out of its way to avoid him.
  • (19) The rapper – who performed to screaming adulation with Alicia Keys – became the most successful solo artist in the history of the US Billboard chart, after his 11th album, Blueprint 3, went to number one, surpassing Elvis Presley's record.
  • (20) And how will Aung San Suu Kyi, who has repeatedly said she detests being described as a saint or an icon, cope with the adulation she will receive this week?

Vaunt


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.
  • (v. t.) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
  • (n.) A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.
  • (n.) The first part.
  • (v. t.) To put forward; to display.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
  • (2) But the squeeze on living standards also cited has been exacerbated by the chancellor's January VAT rise, and the Bank clearly sets little store by his much-vaunted "plan for growth".
  • (3) Those Lords resisting an elected chamber had better prove their vaunted independence by kicking up an almighty stink at being denied any voice in the main cuts legislation whizzing through Westminster.
  • (4) Well he didn’t and it’s not – and Clinton’s staff had better get to shoring up that vaunted Southern firewall before South Carolinians feel the Bern, too.
  • (5) The show stars Berry as a jobbing actor with vaunting ambition who gets into surreal scrapes, with a supporting cast including Doon Mackichan as his agent and Robert Bathurst as his housemate.
  • (6) Rather than identifying Americans’ easy and even vaunted access to firearms as a leading cause of mass shootings, gun rights advocates would rather blame gun violence on mental illness, bad parenting and other factors other than the cheap and easy availability of guns.
  • (7) News of the confrontation broke a day before the arrival of Xi Jinping , the Chinese president, in India, and has undermined official statements vaunting the goodwill between the two nations.
  • (8) Copé courted the party's right wing by vaunting the merits of an "uninhibited" UMP addressing subjects such as "anti-white racism".
  • (9) England were 10 points ahead in the third quarter and comfortably in control against opponents who had barely mounted a significant attack and whose vaunted defence was pulled apart with surprising ease at times.
  • (10) No amount of "investment pots" and "three-fold rises in apprenticeships" will make a difference to the much-vaunted growth and enterprise.
  • (11) The last Labour government received its wake-up call during the 2007-08 banking and commodity crisis, when global raw food prices doubled in months, as did oil, on which the much vaunted success of 20th century food policy depends.
  • (12) We have the opportunity to build a more resilient, sustainable economy provides a wide ranging number of policy and regulatory insights which will help lay the foundations of the much vaunted, slow to arrive, green economy.” Karl Harder from Abundance Generation said: “The Carbon Bubble is something the public must wake up to, and we must start divesting – fast if we are to avoid what could be the biggest financial crisis we have ever seen.
  • (13) The number of "City-type" jobs will finish the year at around 288,000 says the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr), a head count that would be on a par with 1998 and well below the peak of 354,000 seen 2007 which was the high water mark for the UK's once vaunted financial services sector.
  • (14) A high-profile glitch in ITV's much-vaunted FA Cup coverage - which meant that millions of viewers missed the winning goal in a Merseyside derby - may have been a transmission fault, but could all too easily be seen as symbolic of a broadcaster with its eye off the ball.
  • (15) That increase came despite the much-vaunted switch from coal to shale gas – with its lower emissions than coal when burned for energy – that has dominated the US's energy economy in recent years.
  • (16) Waddoup emphasised it is in fact the Russian middle class, not the much-vaunted oligarchs, who are driving the overseas property market.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Revenant director Alejandro González Iñárritu: ‘So much pain was implanted in that time’ – video interview The much-vaunted advance of streaming sites Netflix and Amazon looks also to have been thwarted, with neither of their much-touted films, Beasts of No Nation (Netflix) and Chi-Raq (Amazon) finding Oscar favour.
  • (18) Not even Mad Men, with its much-vaunted gorgeous wardrobe and much-interviewed costume designer Janie Bryant , has had any effect on how people actually dress.
  • (19) Despite the Australian government’s diversions, the rotation has much broader significance; it is a key node in America’s much vaunted “pivot to Asia”, a once-in-a-generation strategic shift through which the US seeks to maintain its regional military dominance in the face of a rising China.
  • (20) David Noble, chief executive officer at the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply said: "The much-vaunted march of the makers has finally materialised with the UK manufacturing sector's output growth hitting a 29-month high in July.