What's the difference between flashy and flaunt?

Flashy


Definition:

  • (a.) Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright.
  • (a.) Fiery; vehement; impetuous.
  • (a.) Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress.
  • (a.) Without taste or spirit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In fact, less flashy politicians such as Jacqui Smith and Hazel Blears were the ones who made it to the top.
  • (2) We stayed together for several more years, until I swapped her for a flashy Mazda coupe.
  • (3) Sarkozy is charismatic and bling-bling; all flashy watches, Aviator sunglasses and supermodel wife.
  • (4) In the swinging 1960s, Peck's sober style seemed a little out of place, though he appeared in a couple of flashy Hitchcockian thrillers, Mirage (1965) and Arabesque (1966), and adapted to the new Hollywood as best he could, looking rather bothered as the father of a demon in The Omen (1976).
  • (5) Target Field, a $545m limestone-encased jewel that opened in 2010, produced an All-Star cycle just eight batters in, with hitters showing off flashy neon-bright spikes and fielders wearing All-Star caps with special designs for the first time.
  • (6) She has a way of owning the room, but she's not flashy.
  • (7) Flashy university buildings: do they live up to the hype?
  • (8) "She is the opposite of the flashiness of Rich Ricci [the Barclays investment banker who topped the City pay league in 2011].
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marco Rubio’s campaign launch video Rubio spoke on a conference call with donors before a flashy political rally set for Monday night in Miami, stage-managed for maximum exposure.
  • (10) There is a flashy new restaurant block, high-rise apartments, and department stores where you can buy Dior cosmetics, Siemens washing machines and blue and yellow polka-dot swimsuits.
  • (11) You would struggle to find a second lord of the Treasury who promised a flashy and opportunistic budget.
  • (12) Similarly, gay SNL star McKinnon’s Ghostbusters character is never explicitly outed, but a few lines hint at her sexuality, while director Feig gave a “grinning, silent nod” in an interview with the Daily Beast when asked if she was gay, prefacing it with the comment: “When you’re dealing with the studios ...” And even the flashy reboot of Tarzan was set to have a kiss between Christoph Waltz’s flamboyant villain and an unconscious buffed-up Alexander Skarsgård , but it was chopped after test audiences were said to be left perplexed by it.
  • (13) Yes, I like clothes and flashy things, but I know why I have all these clothes: football."
  • (14) Now you can taste it.” Then she vaped, luxuriantly, on a flashy chrome tube.
  • (15) They would not splurge money on vanity projects, on “free” schools, sports stadiums, high-speed railways, and flashy science and arts centres.
  • (16) No big blast this time around, just what amounts to a routine groundball for the flashy fielding Kozma at short.
  • (17) Since its arrival in 2003, the titles have relied on flashy hyper-violence, Michael Bay explosions and ludicrous plotlines.
  • (18) It isn’t the most flashy cultural manifestations of gentrification, the cereal cafes and the hipster baristas, who are the most influential actors in this process.
  • (19) As the inspectors are "now obsessed with making lessons 'fun' and 'interactive', through endless games and group work and the use of flashy technology", traditional teaching methods are penalised, even if they engage the pupils and get good results.
  • (20) As a result, no one in the team could be described as flashy: Stone, like most of the company's employees dresses in the uniform of new media – T-shirt, carefully messed-up hair and black-rimmed glasses.

Flaunt


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show.
  • (v. t.) To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.
  • (n.) Anything displayed for show.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
  • (2) Since she won the Nobel prize, tree planting has become an essential for all countries wanting to flaunt green credentials.
  • (3) Vladimir Putin flaunts that disrespect with his actions over Ukraine.
  • (4) • This article was amended on 29 January 2015 to correct a misuse of flaunt for flout in the sub-heading.
  • (5) From the age of 38, he led the Liberals for nine years, flaunting his advantage when, out on the election trail in 1974 wearing a trademark trilby, he vaulted a security barrier like a Moulin Rouge can-can dancer.
  • (6) These days, Banks flaunts his political views with a FTT (Fuck the Tories ) T-shirt.
  • (7) He flaunted a recent report by the BBC that suggests that more of the Lib Dem manifesto is being delivered in government than the priorities set out by the Conservatives, despite the fact that the Lib Dems have just eight percent of MPs in Westminster.
  • (8) The state-funded Genocide Museum on the main boulevard of Vilnius does not mention the word "Holocaust"; it is all about Soviet crimes; and even flaunts antisemitic exhibits.
  • (9) But Grazia drooling over Kardashian's "well-dressed bottom" is akin to the Mail Online claiming that women are "flaunting" their legs , when all they're doing is walking.
  • (10) The myth of wealth and gratification he flaunts in this portrait was largely fantasy when he started out.
  • (11) It is felt that the current belief of greater homosexuality in actors, as compared to the general population, is a product of our Puritan heritage, the actor's unconventionality, and of public flaunting of the homoerotic behavior of that portion of actors that are homosexual.
  • (12) Zhan Jiang, a journalism professor at the Beijing Foreign Studies University and prominent online opinion leader, said officials were now less likely to take obvious bribes and flaunt their power – one sign that the drive should be taken seriously.
  • (13) From selfies on super-yachts to posing with private jets, the young heirs of the uber-wealthy have attracted worldwide envy and derision by flaunting their lavish lifestyles on social media.
  • (14) "Flaunting one's curves" means, simply, that you have a female body and to have a female body means, obviously, that you want to be ogled and quite possibly more.
  • (15) A beekeeper brazenly flaunting his face-covering When Ukip first announced its ban on face-coverings it was asked if it would apply to beekeepers, and there, on page 52 of the manifesto, is a picture of one – just 15 pages after the burqa ban section.
  • (16) Although City have no issue with the result, the club believe the stadium ban was flaunted.
  • (17) Growing up gay in the Australian bush: 'We do not flaunt it, it's who we are' Read more I believe marriage equality can be achieved relatively soon, but only with a well-thought out plan, good organising, the participation of grassroots supporters and a lot of heart.
  • (18) Flaunting a corporate and totalitarian style, they stand before an ugly pseudo-classical painting of a mountain range straddled by the Great Wall, forming their own human wall of dark-suited conformity.
  • (19) The people it doesn’t belong to and who don’t belong there are those who grabbed it by force of arms, flaunting their contempt for the local citizens.” Le Guin, who lives in northwest Portland, said that the people of Harney County “have carefully hammered out agreements to manage the refuge in the best interest of landowners, scientists, visitors, tourists, livestock and wildlife”, and that “they’re suffering more every day, economically and otherwise, from this invasion by outsiders”.
  • (20) But to the oracle I must return once more because what the Washington Post once was to Nixon's corruption, Mail Online is to women flaunting their curves: tireless in its determination to expose such things, fearless in the face of mockery of its myopic and, to sceptical outsiders, decidedly deranged obsession.