flaunting

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Verb

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flaunting

  1. present participle and gerund of flaunt

Adjective

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flaunting (comparative more flaunting, superlative most flaunting)

  1. That flaunts; showy or gaudy

Noun

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flaunting (plural flauntings)

  1. The act by which something is flaunted.
    • 1899 (please specify the page), Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part:
      Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend […]
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