Definition of vaunted
:highly or widely praised or boasted about
- his own much vaunted ferocity
- —Calvin Tomkins
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Examples of vaunted in a Sentence
The team's vaunted defense faltered in the second half of the game.
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SDSU’s running game, so vaunted now, averaged but 140 yards a game during those first four contests.
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The 10 dishes everyone will be talking about this fall are: The Fat Smooth The vaunted Fat Smooth.
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And with good reason: The museum features plenty of traces of the composer's youth and vaunted musical career, from the child prodigy's violin to artifacts from his operas.
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Graham, though, stands in a category unto herself, not just as the first plus-size supermodel but also as perhaps the most exciting supermodel, in the Zeitgeist-defining sense of the term, to emerge since that vaunted era.
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Uncomfortably for IOC President Thomas Bach, whose much-vaunted Agenda 2020 reforms were designed to make hosting more streamlined and less costly after the lavish 2014 Sochi Games, the first withdrawal came from his homeland of Germany.
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Zuckerberg also has Sheryl Sandberg by his side; Spiegel clearly does not have such a vaunted No.
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Even the vaunted American military seems more skilled at blowing things up than at achieving anything resembling victory.
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Today’s opioid epidemic presents a mostly-white face to the world, and the larger ‘epidemic of despair’ tends to target communities in vaunted ‘
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vaunted Has Latin Roots
The verb vaunt has been used since the 15th century with the meaning "to make a vain display of one's own worth or attainments"-in other words, "to brag or boast." Over time, vaunt developed the meaning "to boast of (something)," as in "the promotional flier vaunts the natural beauty of the area," and gave rise to the adjectival form vaunted. The history of vaunt and vaunted leads back to the Latin word vanus, meaning "vain" or "empty." (The word vain itself is also a descendant of vanus.)
Origin and Etymology of vaunted
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Definition of vaunted for English Language Learners
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: often spoken of or described as very good or great : often praised
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