vaunt's Usage Examples:

He was a delicate boy, but when the war of 1870 broke out his mother sent him to the army, to win popularity for him, and the government journals vaunted his bravery.

bastions in the cities, under the banner of its much-vaunted ' participatory budget ' .

vaunting ambition is what this book is all about.

The upper classes were especially anti-foreign,, and the whole nation vaunted its superiority to the rest of mankind.

They were a power strong enough to give the Pharaoh cause to vaunt his success (see also Egypt: Ancient History, § " The New Empire ").

Soggy chips and vaunting ambition is what this book is all about.

The long-promised abolition of the grist tax was not explicitly mentioned, opposition to the railway redemption contracts was transformed into approval, and the vaunted reduction of taxation replaced by lip-service to the Conservative deity of financial equilibrium.

In many respects the brilliance of this long and often vaunted Maecenate of Leo X.

"The more nobly and magnanimously thou conductest thyself, and the less thou vauntest of thy wealth and power, the more readily shall we regard thy wishes both as to the concession of a church in the city and of altars in the church of SS.

In the following year by the efforts of Sir William Temple the much vaunted Triple Alliance was concluded between Great United Provinces to face unaided the vengeance of the French king.

But the address and the expression in the italicized passage just quoted (which evidently alludes to the vaunting epistle of 1165) hardly leave room for doubt that the pope supposed himself to be addressing the author of that letter.

""The more nobly and magnanimously thou conductest thyself, and the less thou vauntest of thy wealth and power, the more readily shall we regard thy wishes both as to the concession of a church in the city and of altars in the church of SS.

Synonyms:

boast, boasting, jactitation, self-praise,

Antonyms:

failure, beginning, defeat, complain, lose,