verb
definition
To speak boastfully.
definition
To speak boastfully about.
definition
To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
adjective
definition
Highly or widely praised or boasted about.
Examples of vaunted in a Sentence
In the following year by the efforts of Sir William Temple the much vaunted Triple Alliance was concluded between Great United Provinces to face unaided the vengeance of the French king.
The long-promised abolition of the grist tax was not explicitly mentioned, opposition to the railway redemption contracts was transformed into approval, and the vaunted reduction of taxation replaced by lip-service to the Conservative deity of financial equilibrium.
He was a delicate boy, but when the war of 1870 broke out his mother sent him to the army, to win popularity for him, and the government journals vaunted his bravery.
Indeed, the paucity of women of the Aryan stock would probably render these mixed unions almost a necessity from the very outset; and the vaunted purity of blood which the caste rules were calculated to perpetuate can scarcely have remained of more than a relative degree even in the case of the Brahman caste.
The upper classes were especially anti-foreign,, and the whole nation vaunted its superiority to the rest of mankind.