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Definition

to praise something and make it known — especially to convince others to buy or believe

Much more rarely, tout can refer to a person who sells aggressively — especially advice about horse races.

This product was touted as a revolutionary invention

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
Lawana Blackwell
Mavis touted the virtues of lip dye, but Eve was wary of a color commitment that could last for three weeks.
J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
It was a slow, tout-like, humiliating business.
V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River
Keep them from wasting their much touted skills on one another.
John Gardner -- Grendel
Tonight is Nick's much touted interview with Sharon Schieber.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
You been touting him for the last six weeks!" protested Orville Jones.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
"Mr Western," answered the lady, "you may say what you please, _je vous mesprise de tout mon coeur.
Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
It flopped quietly, like many much-touted orders.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Tout-a-fait a l'anglaise.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
~La beauté est parfaite, La beauté peut tout, La beauté est la seule chose qui n'existe pàs a demi~.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Now, because we're talking to all your watchers now, I'd like to tout the overall program your own data feeds into, Mae.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
Il est tout a fait different.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
Madame Lumière promises to return tout de suite.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
The elevators in the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, touted as one of the wonders of the fair, still had not begun operation.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
"In our domain," the apologies for familiarity, the French phrase tout court, were all characteristic signs.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
However, with recent events, it isn't the progress that will be touted by the press.
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
NW: What I can tell you, however, is that no one was touting me in Kabul.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
O contempler la mer a l'ombre d'un haut figuier et touter tout autour les cris des hirondelles voltigeant dans l'azur parmi les oliviers!
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
The cold stethoscope against my heart and my strongest feeling "Je m'en fiche de tout.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night

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