vaunted
vaunted adjective: highly or widely praised or boasted about. Also the simple past and past participle of vaunt.
Adjective
vaunted (comparative more vaunted, superlative most vaunted)
- Highly or widely praised or boasted about.
- We know that many male City employees still go to lapdancing clubs for a fun night out. We know City organisations have struggled in their vaunted attempts to get more women on boards.2018 January 18, Amelia Gentleman, “Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2020
- We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes...2020 April 7, Peter Conrad, “Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu review – rebooting our reality”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2025
Also used as
vaunted is also the simple past and past participle of vaunt.
Examples of vaunted in a sentence
- AmEx also recently relaunched its vaunted Platinum card, offering more travel and shopping benefits for average consumers.2021 July 23, Paul R. La Monica, “American Express is the Dow’s top stock for 2021. Here’s why”, in CNN Business, archived from the...
- And for the past 36 years, his initials have been stamped onto every brake disc or chassis he’s assembled – part of the company’s vaunted accountability practice.2025 January 27, Lenora Chu, “How Volkswagen slid from German engineering icon to innovation laggard”, in The Christian Science Monitor...
Forms of vaunted
| comparative | more vaunted |
|---|---|
| superlative | most vaunted |
Origin of vaunted
From vaunt + -ed.
Words formed from vaunted
Questions about vaunted
- What does vaunted mean?
- Vaunted means highly or widely praised or boasted about.
- How do you use vaunted in a sentence?
- AmEx also recently relaunched its vaunted Platinum card, offering more travel and shopping benefits for average consumers.
- What part of speech is vaunted?
- Vaunted is an adjective.
Words near vaunted in the dictionary
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