Definition of Flaunting

1. Verb. (present participle of flaunt) ¹

2. Adjective. That flaunts; showy or gaudy ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flaunting

1. flaunt [v] - See also: flaunt

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flaunting

flaughters
flaughts
flaunch
flaunched
flaunches
flaunching
flaune
flaunes
flaunt
flaunted
flaunter
flaunters
flauntier
flauntiest
flauntily
flaunting (current term)
flauntingly
flaunts
flaunty
flauta
flautas
flautist
flautists
flavaniline
flavanol
flavanols
flavanone
flavanone 7-O-beta-glucosyltransferase
flavanone synthetase
flavanones

Literary usage of Flaunting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1916)
"On his birthday Ernest generally receives an envelope with an American postmark containing a book-marker with a flaunting text upon it, ..."

2. The Theory of Toleration Under the Later Stuarts by Alexander Adam Seaton (1911)
"... and the ' flaunting of Papists' at Court, all combined to create a panic which for a few weeks overcame the desire of pensioners to earn their reward, ..."

3. Higher Lessons in English: A Work on English Grammar and Composition, in by Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg (1896)
"Couple those adjectives and nouus below that most appropriately go together:— Modest, lovely, flaunting, meek, patient, faithful, saucy, spirited, violet, ..."

4. Anecdotes of Polite Literature (1764)
"Amid the mould'i-ing caverns dark an ' Or the calm breeze that rallies in the leaves (Of "flaunting ivy, that. with mantle green ..."

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