flaunting a. 招摇的, 扬扬得意的, 夸耀的
Flaunt \Flaunt\ (fl[aum]nt or fl[add]nt; 277), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. {Flaunted}; p. pr. & vb. n.. {Flaunting}.] [Cf. dial. G.
flandern to flutter, wave; perh. akin to E. flatter,
flutter.]
To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously;
as, a flaunting show.
You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.
--Arbuthnot.
One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. --Pope.
- More than Dollars 50bn of corporate assets are likely to be brought to the market, increasing the capitalisation of the Paris bourse by as much as one-fifth. The world's leading merchant bankers are busy flaunting their wares to the French government.
- The play moves the thriller genre into drama, but does so by avoiding the whodunit mystery formula, because the murderers are flaunting their crime.
- But they represent for the staffer what he considers to be the types of excesses at taxpayer expense and the arrogant flaunting of laws that pervade the State Department hierarchy.
- Spellerberg had infuriated city officials by flaunting parking regulations, in effect using the vintage auto as a promotion for his business.
- Never tiring of flaunting his wealth, he decorated his Trump Tower triplex like a casino, then invited the world to admire his 80-foot-long living room, his 12-foot waterfall, his 24-carat-gold faucets and ceiling trim.
- It was the same old reason: oversupply." Three years ago today, American tourists were flaunting dollars in Paris and Tokyo while bargain-priced West German cars rolled off arriving cargo ships.
- The Gotlibs say Mrs. Greene won their confidence by flaunting puffy newspaper articles about herself as well as letters from police departments.
- The pretentious part of "S." is its flaunting of unassimilated lingo from the world of yoga and allied fields.
- Campaigning with Parker, Gray knows how to enhance his own power without flaunting it.