flaunted; flaunting; flaunts
Definition of flaunt
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: to display or obtrude oneself to public notice
a great flaunting crowd— Charles Dickens
2
: to wave or flutter showily
the flag flaunts in the breeze
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: to display ostentatiously or impudently : parade
flaunting his superiority a chance to flaunt clothes, bodies, and sexuality — New Yorker
2
: to treat contemptuously
flaunted the rules— Louis Untermeyer
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The first known use of flaunt was in 1566
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