(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.
Manifest
Definition:
(a.) Evident to the senses, esp. to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived; hence, obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.
(a.) Detected; convicted; -- with of.
(a.) A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto. See Manifesto.
(a.) A list or invoice of a ship's cargo, containing a description by marks, numbers, etc., of each package of goods, to be exhibited at the customhouse.
(v. t.) To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, -- usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit.
(v. t.) To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
(3) Sixteen patients (27%) manifested anomalies of the urinary tract: 12 had markedly altered kidneys, 8 of which were unilateral and ipsilateral to the diaphragmatic defect.
(4) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(5) Tumour necrosis factor (TNF), a polypeptide produced by mononuclear phagocytes, has been implicated as an important mediator of inflammatory processes and of clinical manifestations in acute infectious diseases.
(6) The acute effect of alcohol manifested itself by decreasing mitochondrial respiration, compensated by increased glycolytic activity of the myocardium so that myocardial energy phosphate concentration remained unchanged.
(7) The males had characteristic manifestations of the Martin-Bell syndrome.
(8) A clinically manifest disease could be found in 13 patients, meningosis was additionally detected by autopsy in 32 patients.
(9) Such a need has occurred in New York City, where schistosomiasis, with its protean manifestations has been seen with increasing frequency.
(10) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
(11) Channel activation persists through the process of platelet isolation and washing and is manifested in higher measured values of [Ca2+]cyt and [Ca2+]dt in the "resting state."
(12) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(13) Two patients presented in addition to intestinal manifestations massive extraintestinal symptoms, both with septicemia and meningitis.
(14) It is therefore necessary, to look at typical clinical manifestations, i.e.
(15) The diagnosis of "autism" has been used to encompass a heterogeneous group of children who may differ in etiology, clinical manifestations, prognosis, and needed treatment.
(16) We present a 40-year-old woman with manifestations of all three disorders.
(17) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(18) The authors recently observed 2 elderly female patients with ischemic pain of the upper extremity as the first manifestation of giant cell arteritis.
(19) Health information dissemination is severely complicated by the widespread stigma associated with digestive topics, manifested in the American public's general discomfort in communicating with others about digestive health.
(20) In a Caucasian woman with a history of ocular and pulmonary sarcoidosis, the occurrence of sclerosing peritonitis with exudative ascites but without any of the well-known causes of this syndrome prompts us to consider that sclerosing peritonitis is a manifestation of sarcoidosis.