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