Meaning & use
Vaunting
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Boasting about or praising something, especially one's own qualities or achievements, in an excessive or self-important way.
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He spent the entire dinner vaunting his recent promotion to anyone who would listen.
The company's ads keep vaunting features that competitors have offered for years.
A note on using this word
"Vaunting" is also used as an adjective in phrases like "vaunting ambition," describing pride or ambition so excessive that it risks overreaching, a sense famously used by Shakespeare in Macbeth.
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2. adjective
Excessively proud or boastful, especially about one's ambitions.
His vaunting ambition eventually led to his downfall.
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