Vaunted
adjective
If something is vaunted, it is often praised or bragged about, usually excessively and specifically for the purpose of creating a desired positive impression.
The team failed to live up to their vaunted reputation in the final game.
Often appears as...
- vaunted reputation
- vaunted status
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Disapproving
adjective
If something is vaunted, it is often praised or bragged about, usually excessively and specifically for the purpose of creating a desired positive impression.
The team failed to live up to their vaunted reputation in the final game.
Often appears as...
- vaunted reputation
- vaunted status
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Overstatement Warning
Be cautious, 'vaunted' may indicate that the praise could be more than deserved, suggesting skepticism or doubt.
Despite the vaunted benefits, the product did not perform as expected.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential Irony
'Vaunted' can be used ironically to critique something that has been overly praised without merit.
His vaunted singing talent was met with groans, not applause.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Implication
The word sometimes carries a negative connotation, hinting that the praise is annoying or unnecessary.
The critics were tired of the director's vaunted innovations.
Pro Tip 1/3Overstatement Warning
Be cautious, 'vaunted' may indicate that the praise could be more than deserved, suggesting skepticism or doubt.
Despite the vaunted benefits, the product did not perform as expected.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential Irony
'Vaunted' can be used ironically to critique something that has been overly praised without merit.
His vaunted singing talent was met with groans, not applause.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Implication
The word sometimes carries a negative connotation, hinting that the praise is annoying or unnecessary.
The critics were tired of the director's vaunted innovations.
Pro Tip 1/3Overstatement Warning
Be cautious, 'vaunted' may indicate that the praise could be more than deserved, suggesting skepticism or doubt.
Despite the vaunted benefits, the product did not perform as expected.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential Irony
'Vaunted' can be used ironically to critique something that has been overly praised without merit.
His vaunted singing talent was met with groans, not applause.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Implication
The word sometimes carries a negative connotation, hinting that the praise is annoying or unnecessary.
The critics were tired of the director's vaunted innovations.
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Seafood and Survival PIPE...
utterly incredible talents and some of my very favorites are the photographers you know I mean just incredible brave men and women sent out into the world to create a relationship to take a snapshot then of that relationship as a souvenir to bring back to us to publish in the vaunted pages of the yellow magazine I
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Are Ad Agencies, PR...
I want you to ask Are you selling your talent to the right people? Are you serving the causes of climate change or the solutions to it? And are you using all that vaunted ability to influence your clients
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Making sense of complex...
to explore the meaning of peace to their work moving from art to art history this is Genevieve vaunted singer an art historian who is working with underwater
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Camille Paglia
American Author
Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.
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Paul Di Filippo
American Writer
The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.
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Hampton Sides
American Historian
I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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Jeffrey C. Hall
American Scientist
What props up biological research, at least in the vaunted U.S. of A., involves a situation so deeply imbued with entitlement mentality that it has sunk into institutional corruption.
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Michelle Dean
American Journalist
The Festival of Books is indeed a well-oiled machine, one which leaves most of the other literary festivals in America, including vaunted Brooklyn's, in the dust.
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Anna Julia Cooper
American Educator
If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.
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Pat Buchanan
American Journalist
Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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Phil Gingrey
American Politician
The vaunted Democratic stimulus bill has failed to stimulate anything other than a few federal bureaucrats.
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Camille Paglia
American Author
Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.
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Paul Di Filippo
American Writer
The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.
Quote examples
Hampton Sides
American Historian
I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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Jeffrey C. Hall
American Scientist
What props up biological research, at least in the vaunted U.S. of A., involves a situation so deeply imbued with entitlement mentality that it has sunk into institutional corruption.
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Michelle Dean
American Journalist
The Festival of Books is indeed a well-oiled machine, one which leaves most of the other literary festivals in America, including vaunted Brooklyn's, in the dust.
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Anna Julia Cooper
American Educator
If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.
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Pat Buchanan
American Journalist
Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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Phil Gingrey
American Politician
The vaunted Democratic stimulus bill has failed to stimulate anything other than a few federal bureaucrats.
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