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词汇 flaunted
释义 flaunted
past simple and past participle offlaunt
flaunt
verb[ T ]
 disapprovinguk /flɔːnt/ us /flɑːnt/
to show or make obvious something you are proud of in order to get admiration: 炫耀,夸示,卖弄
He's got a lot of money but he doesn't flaunt it.他有很多钱,但从不炫耀。
Flavio was flaunting his tan in a pair of white trunks.弗拉维奥穿了一条白色的游泳裤,炫耀自己晒成棕褐色的肌肤。
 flaunt yourself
UK
to show your body in a confident and sexual manner: (性感地)招摇过市
She was criticized for flaunting herself on the beach in front of the media.
I hope they didn't think I was flaunting myself!
They accused her of flirting with the singer and flaunting herself.
He clearly set out to upstage the leader, flaunting himself in front of the cameras.
He certainly wasn't averse to flaunting himself on stage.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Showing and demonstrating
act out
attest
bespeak
breastbeating
bring
indicate
mark something out
masterclass
ostensive
ostensively
outlet
point (something/someone) out
reflect
reveal
trace
unproved
unproven
unveil
unwrap
vent

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Attention-seeking, distracting and showing off

Examples of flaunted


flaunted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Here the latest trends in music and dance could be enjoyed, and the latest fashions flaunted.
Other indicators of wealth are quite visible and conspicuously flaunted.
In the 1980s, they proudly flaunted their individualism, outside social norms.
Those sad experiences were a prime motive for constitutional limits on county debt (subsequently flaunted).
He publicly flaunted his mistress to all and sundry.
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It is flaunted in the eyes of the people.
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No remedy was open to those whose names were flaunted about in that way.
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The smoking rules will be flaunted in vehicles on the trains.
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Perhaps more important, immature girls, seeing the activities of these women flaunted in public, saw no reason why they should not themselves follow that example.
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Some doom scenarios were actually flaunted 10 years ago when we had a negligible private sector.
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Certain people have been flaunted on television and in the press as being important.
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However, those authorities have seen other authorities that not only have done none of those things, but have publicly flaunted their refusal to do so.
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I would emphasise that the law in that case was flaunted with impunity.
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Not for them are the good things that they see flaunted in the television advertisements and the colour supplements.
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The parking regulations were flaunted; meter rules could not be enforced, and the loading privileges were taken advantage of in almost every case.
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