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the act of showing off (displaying something ostentatiously)- She is more wealthy than her neighbors, but she never flaunts it.
flaunts = shows off (displays something ostentatiously)
- He walks the walk, but doesn't flaunt his religious beliefs.
- All night, he kept yelling, "Flaunt it, baby!"Stephen Chbosky -- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Vivian Baptiste was a beautiful woman, and she knew it; but she didn't flaunt it, it was just there.Ernest J. Gaines -- A Lesson Before Dying
- his behavior was an outrageous flaunt
- Before her walk she would have flaunted her baldness beneath a golden crown.George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
- My motorcycle, flaunting itself in the driveway.Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
- It is yet so early in this world That the sky even now flaunts its countless stars, And each star is radiant as the day.Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- Flaunted the moment with the berries in the Capitol's face?Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- We cannot have our family's shame flaunted in this village for all to stare at and whisper over.Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
- There's that Bessy Cranage—she'll be flaunting i' new finery three weeks after you're gone, I'll be bound.George Eliot -- Adam Bede
- How that little round hole of pink heel seemed to flaunt itself before them!Virginia Woolf -- To the Lighthouse
- Flaunting your abilities off-campus?Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
- And it would be so flaunting, such a sneer at the Aunts, so sinful, so free.Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
- Thought of meeting with buffalo-hunters persistently flaunted hopes.Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
- Insulting me by flaunting your human toy in my presence.Susan Ee -- Angelfall
- He had no desire to flaunt his maimed hand for Mace Tyrell or the Red Viper just now, much less the two of them together.George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
- Eugene felt an almost palpable aura of a disgrace or sadness that had to be as ever-present as the skin is, of hiding and flaunting together.Eudora Welty -- The Golden Apples
- One girl, bolder than the others, answered him, flaunting her knowledge of the white man's language.Elizabeth George Speare -- The Sign of the Beaver
- Do you mean he flaunts his beautiful English ?Don DeLillo -- White Noise
flaunt = show off (display something ostentatiously)
flaunt = show off (display something ostentatiously)