(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.
Parade
Definition:
(v. t.) The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.
(v. t.) An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled.
(v. t.) Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.
(v. t.) That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military order; as, a parade of firemen.
(v. t.) Posture of defense; guard.
(v. t.) A public walk; a promenade.
(v. t.) To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.
(v. t.) To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops.
(v. i.) To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public place.
(v. i.) To assemble in military order for evolutions and inspection; to form or march, as in review.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cabrera, wearing a bulletproof vest, was paraded before the news media in what has become a common practice for law enforcement authorities following major arrests.
(2) It also pledged support to a veterans’ group that rejected a request by a gay, lesbian and bisexual group to march in the St Patrick’s Day parade in Boston.
(3) The orchestrated round of warnings from the Obama administration did not impress a coterie of senior Republicans who were similarly paraded on the talk shows, blaming the White House for having brought the country to the brink of yet another "manufactured crisis".
(4) It's the slogan of an old electronica & dance music festival in Berlin known as The Love Parade.
(5) As for Halloween : The big parade in Greenwich Village has been postponed until next week.
(6) Coming shortly after the regime's successful third nuclear weapons test, Rodman's public declaration that he was Kim's "friend for life ", and the young premier's ability to parade his western visitors on state media, angered critics who argued that the country's ghastly poverty and brutal human rights violations were inadequately reflected.
(7) Other measures to promote justice and co-operation against criminals who pay no attention to European frontiers are also being thrown out of the window as May enters the cabinet "EU exit competition" – apparently to see which minister can parade his or her dislike of the EU the most.
(8) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
(9) U is for United States As ever, there will be plenty of American businessmen on parade at the forum, since they like a few days' R&R in the Alps.
(10) Macron and Trump will attend the Bastille Day military parade on the Champs Élysée on Friday morning, before the Trumps return to Washington.
(11) The Republic Day parade celebrates the introduction in 1950 of the country’s own constitution and thus its full independence from Britain.
(12) Lance Sergeant Darren Shaw, whose daughter was two weeks old when he left for Afghanistan, said the parade would bring closure to the Afghan tour "then we can get ready and move on to what our next tasks are".
(13) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel , visited Moscow the day after the parade to lay a wreath at a war memorial, but she criticised Russia’s “illegal” annexation of Crimea in a joint press conference with Putin.
(14) At recent climate change conferences, a coffin has been paraded through the halls of delegates covered in a shroud and attended by mourners.
(15) The comments emerged in an article about last year’s Manchester Pride event, which was described in the Christian Soldiers newsletter as an “annual parade of depravity”.
(16) The president, after blasting fat cats and the self-interest of Wall Street for years, has made a landmark move in his relationship with companies: he is taking corporate donations to fund the parade and parties of his second inauguration.
(17) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
(18) He declined to discuss refusing passports to those who protest at army homecoming parades, a policy idea attributed to Home Office sources over the weekend.
(19) Moreover, the state-controlled Chinese media have in a series of broadcasts denounced a number of detained “suspects” as members of a crime syndicate engaging in “rights-defence-style troublemaking”, and paraded some of those detained “confessing” to wrongdoing before they have even been publicly indicted.
(20) There is still plenty vendors can do to make sure their property stands out in the online "beauty parade", says John Durrant, a former estate agent turned professional photographer, whose website www.doctor-photo.co.uk will improve photographs of your home for just £3 a shot.