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    1. She loved to flaunt her skill and never missed an opportunity to do it


    2. She thought he was trying to flaunt his maleness for her, he did have a beautiful chin


    3. “Do not flaunt your purse strings at me, Son of Odin,” Terese said, in a new state of calm


    4. Immigration Reform is unlikely to occur anytime soon for the (very) simple reason that such measures designed to quiet the tides of illegal immigration must necessarily conflict with the efforts of corporate lobbyists and their political minions in conjunction with private enterprises that have come to rely heavily on cheaper sources of labor to operate their businesses and who have repeatedly demonstrated their calloused indifference to rules of law and native born working men and women and are willing to operate outside the law if that‘s what it takes, at the expense of Native Americans for the ―benefit‖ of Illegal Aliens who are ―here‖ to collect a paycheck if nothing else, who routinely flaunt our nation‘s laws while abetting an underground economy injurious to open markets


    5. ―evolving‖ standards are generally tolerant of unusual or ―quirky‖ (sexual) manners (otherwise) considered remarkable by traditional standards provided they neither openly flaunt nor challenge a society‘s established customs


    6. flaunt the laws of our land without fear of reprisal is of no immediate concern to some politicians entrusted with the welfare and security of its citizens


    7. Americans on both sides of the political aisle who simply regard this bill as a transparent attempt at extending blanket amnesty to millions of ―undocumented‖ aliens who routinely flaunt our nation‘s laws without apparent consequence


    8. Seeing that I was bewildered by that remark, he explained that even though the papa was the “vicar of Christ” and the successor of the “apostles,” he did not lead a very moral life, and was wont to flaunt his excesses at this banquets


    9. And how dare she flaunt a handicapped baby in the face of abortion on call


    10. And, in an act of cruel irony, a few ferals even flaunt tufts of her hair—still rooted in chunks of bloody flesh—above their heads as trophies

    11. Roger felt, at times, overwhelmed and discouraged by the severity of the problems that were besetting his life, disillusioned and betrayed by women he once respected and admired, invaded and maligned by homosexuals who seemed to flaunt public responsibility in pursuit of private individual rights


    12. seen, even now, not that she had so much to flaunt anyway, but there was more than a hint of something interesting below


    13. - travelling circuses continues to flaunt their ―collections‖ of tortured lions, tigers, crocodiles, elephants and hippos; the ―conclusions‖ of sanitary veterinary directions is


    14. Usually they flaunted whatever they had to flaunt, in their skin or


    15. You can help her to focus on her good points, and help her find ways to flaunt these good points


    16. They thought he should be with someone in the same social class as him, someone he could flaunt around


    17. Flaunt what you have


    18. Though he would brazenly flaunt his own mistresses and fancy women before her eyes


    19. To flaunt and defy the will of the Lifestream and the cycle that it represents is to lose what you wish to have back even as you have gained it


    20. In a further attempt to hide, or possibly flaunt, her maturity, she liked to wear floppy sandals and red toenail polish

    21. Won’t I be able to pass off all this as business profit then, even from the beginning? And that would be the time to flaunt my wealth and make her move in a limousine of her own


    22. comes from our mothers telling us that a “lady is modest and doesn’t flaunt herself”


    23. flaunt his virtue and win admiration, or with the design of securing


    24. When, as sometimes happened, and was happening now, she came across prosperity, and it seemed to flaunt, she had only to think of the day, near or distant but certain, when it would be stretched out beneath its last sheet with pennies on its eyes, at once not only to forgive it but to feel quite fond


    25. Was it a genuine attempt at reconciliation? Or was it to flaunt their emotional distance at her?


    26. a comparative study? If there is anything unique about the product, then flaunt


    27. To flaunt it


    28. New money's motto was, If you have it, flaunt it


    29. or a big save arose, each side was sure to flaunt it in the face of the other


    30. would do a lot of things for him, which he would flaunt as his own and this somehow

    31. Why is this? could it be that when they were categorized as a class for thousands of years… they were universally hated by all the other classes? And that they finally learned after the flaunting of their wealth publicly, during what western history calls the Gilded Age never again to flaunt their wealth and their power as a class so blatantly?


    32. They flaunt their Jewishness publicly


    33. Kill the sentinel first… flaunt all the teachings of Jesus: without anybody telling you that robbers are coming…?


    34. Whenever evil becomes so arrogant and so stupid that it thinks it can FLAUNT itself


    35. He was a secret homosexual who did not flaunt his homosexuality in public while he was in office… Neither did movie idols like Rock Hudson; who was forced into exposing his lifelong hypocrisy only because he was dying of aids


    36. Since the fall of the Roman Empire: homosexuals have not dared to flaunt themselves again in public as they once had in ancient Rome… Because after Rome fell; they were hunted down and killed


    37. He deserved everything I could give or flaunt of my body, which was now just for his enjoyment


    38. Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask--lie over!


    39. Now and henceforth flaunt from these shores


    40. All its ships and shores I see interwoven with your threads greedy banner; Dream'd again the flags of kings, highest borne to flaunt unrival'd?

    41. He seemed to flaunt his body: she was aware of him so-


    42. He didn’t flaunt it, but you could see it in the way he processed things


    43. to come and flaunt himself and Emmie in her face


    44. “So you can flaunt it before your poverty-stricken friends and say ’see what I caught!’ comfort themselves by whispering that it’s really vulgar to wear such large stones


    45. ” They flaunt it


    46. If you’ve got it, flaunt it! The age of the robber barons


    47. The chief pleasure and necessity of such men, when they encounter anyone who shows animation, is to flaunt their own dreary, persistent activity


    48. It was almost as if everyone was so accustomed to getting away with so much where Marilyn was concerned, now they wanted to push the envelope and flaunt the relationship in front of the entire country—and on television!


    49. They know what punishments are visited upon those who attempt to resist the organized system of pillage, but so far from abandoning or concealing their luxurious habits, they flaunt them in the faces of those whom they oppress and by whom they are hated


    50. Exquisite torture, truly, to flaunt a husband’s folly in his own face, over his own mahogany, with the source of that folly looking on

    1. However, the cultic prostitutes who serve at the temple of Aphrodite in Corinth flaunted their profession by going unveiled in public


    2. The pillar-of-society wife he flaunted might stand at the dock for something as loathed as child rape and murder


    3. She not only flaunted her perfection, but enhanced it with the Oneness, ensuring that it was impossible for all who neared her to take note of her stunning beauty


    4. While she imagined she flaunted her “booty” like a Rolls Royce Before the serfs—that if they promoted chicks for beauty She’d be president of the earth (she could flirt with such Precision, she’d shatter the ends of your nerves)… while She chuckled at this… he reminded her that


    5. Such deceptions are no longer necessary in today‘s ―learning‖ environments where the pre-disposing limits and biases of intellectual argument(s) are freely flaunted


    6. Of scarlet flame that flaunted riotously


    7. The raunchier Regina Bar meant bare-breasted dancers and high kicks, and it flaunted a slicked-down interlocutor


    8. The men’s side had Formica-covered tables with over-filled ashtrays and uncomfortable wooden chairs, the side for ‘Ladies & Escorts’ flaunted upholstered chairs with arm rests and tables which were cleaned every hour or change of customer - whichever came first


    9. by the gown that flaunted warm dips and curves, while the robe


    10. night and flaunted my attentions on her like she was the only little

    11. The street in front of the house flaunted several police cars, and


    12. whose black car flaunted a funeral home logo on the car door


    13. Usually they flaunted whatever they had to flaunt, in their skin or


    14. She flaunted her new body and Saul was transfixed


    15. Those who flaunted their riches could expect no mercy


    16. She wore tight trousers that were only visible at the shin where her robe stopped, and she flaunted her delicately manicured toes her black-crystal slippers


    17. Even more than the loss of all those soldiers, the taking of Singapore, which had been flaunted as a supposedly impregnable fortress, marked an enormous loss of prestige for the empire


    18. Mitchell glared at the various women, who flaunted their beautiful bodies around the pool, possibly in attempts to lure another prospective single


    19. To become a leader in their sect meant that the outward appearance of godliness had to be kept up; when they fasted, it was flaunted in every street; when they prayed, it was done openly and long for all to see and hear; when they gave alms, it was to be seen, and of course; when it came to keeping the law, their own law, it was done with anything but righteousness, and with pure diligence


    20. Man has built an empire unto himself throughout the last seventeen centuries, and institutionalized, rationalized, justified, and flaunted on most any and every street corner, in any and every town or city

    21. Your personal relationship with God and His Christ, our Lord, will not be flaunted in a display of self-righteousness


    22. Our Life will not have to be flaunted, but the world, and those that choose it, will see God’s people as different, strange


    23. At one side of the coin a guilty conscious had been shed upon us that still haunts our kind whilst on the other hand we were pleased with ourselves that we had flaunted out an existing conduct to be regulated out by us in the future


    24. All who have flaunted their arrogance to our beloved Emperor! What were their crimes, you ask? Why the worship of the Sun God, the War God and the Ancient God! Stare upon their arrogance and be wise, Lycanians! For they have rebuked the Two Brothers! But, will their gods save them now?" He laughed heartily, "If not then may the Two Brothers shower them with their omnipresent mercy and give them quick and easy deaths!"


    25. She had thrown herself at the Abbot and then flaunted herself in front of the Confraternity


    26. William was his nephew and he had flaunted Gough's authority


    27. He didn’t mind being the brunt of their jokes; let ‘em get their jollies, while he flaunted his masterful ability to get away with murder–literally


    28. In fact, she flaunted it with her short skirts and low-cut tops


    29. She tried to maintain the glamour and the possibilities, which she now flaunted and were henceforth mostly unconstrained and unconcealed with plastic surgery and facelifts


    30. With Mariam it was natural and subdued whereas Margot flaunted it

    31. And if some weaker or self deceived Christians, instead of bearing their honors meekly, flaunted their dignity as, 'the sons of God’ in the face of the world, looking down upon 'the publicans afar off,’ no serious thinker would dream of abandoning the doctrine of regeneration, because of the sins of its advocates


    32. Twice a week, Ashley eagerly flaunted her palatial estate in South Hampton, New York,


    33. In addition, Patti openly led a lifestyle that flaunted a libertine attitude on social issues


    34. In consequence, the Bird flaunted his impunity and virtually ran the camp


    35. precious and more proudly worn because of it, finery flaunted with an added pride as an


    36. Erect, haughty, brilliant, he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious archangel


    37. People vociferate, shout, howl, there they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce blossomed forth into an apotheosis; it is the triumphal car of laughter


    38. Sickly yellow lights went to and fro in the houses, and some of the passing cabs flaunted unextinguished lamps


    39. Over it flaunted a Union Jack, flapping cheerfully in the morning breeze


    40. Ruby had always been beautiful; but her beauty had been of the earth, earthy; it had had a certain insolent quality in it, as if it flaunted itself in the beholder's eye; spirit had never shone through it, intellect had never refined it

    41. It has eaten too much, drank too much, danced too much, flirted too much, smoked too much, gambled too much, run riot in frivolity, gone mad in greed, flaunted its pageantry of pride, coveted, lusted, blasphemed, forsaken God, despised religion, loved leasing, and hated honest toil, with its health-giving frugality and slow but solid gains


    1. I was flaunting with my sunglasses on, trying to show off for the paparazzi's eye that was on me


    2. It left the wielder somewhat vulnerable to frontal jabs however, so it was traditionally more for flaunting prowess


    3. Modern conventions have apparently lost its (reasoned) capacity to appreciate, at their face value, the (potential) pitfalls of unbecoming attitudes although (seemingly) encouraging the flaunting of anti-social behavior that is typically provided refuge in recently minted (psychogenic) disorders


    4. Meanwhile, future (employment) opportunities continue to look grim for the American Worker as companies are presently finding themselves in the enviable position of being able to secure their labor requirements from an expanding (global) pool of labor including such (potential) resources who are routinely flaunting our nation‘s borders


    5. Some people take pride in ―slumming‖; especially the well to do affected by an abstract need to ―connect‖ with the ―people‖ (―Hey, I‘m just a regular guy like anybody else‖) while others, on the other hand, enjoy flaunting conventions for their own sake whereas others (may) feel that ―proper‖ attire is no longer relevant and then there are those who have simply developed lazy habits


    6. The flaunting arrogance of today‘s teachers, themselves victims of social engineering a generation ago, is presently under siege by a new generation of (thoughtful) students who, armed with their own (ideological) arsenal of values, may not be such willing accomplices as their parents


    7. For these reasons many athletes are given free passes to showcase their (baser) impulses, (reflecting their own true nature, perhaps,) by flaunting such boorish attitudes that seeks to provide ―entertainment‖ value to the lowest elements of our society while enthusiastically dancing to the beat of their own drums without regard to proper style and form


    8. What I have observed, however, is a procession of global wars, famine, pestilence and disease, a decline in civility and (polite) manners, greed and rabid materialism, a diminution of moral and spiritual values, corporate and political corruption, consumer gluttony, disinterested parents and teachers, dysfunctional households, racism, steroids, offensive rap-music, pedophilia, teenage pregnancies and abortion, social unrest, selfishness and indifference, self-centeredness and conceit, the flaunting of immodest and indecent behavior and the glorification of stupidity in general


    9. She’d already had Mike talk to him about flaunting his newfound wealth


    10. There were more Democratic voters in Belle Cors than Republicans, and flaunting one’s politics could be bad for business

    11. Though I must confess that I indeed smiled with satisfaction upon evoking in my article Clinton’s troubles with interns, but I was not flaunting my delight at you


    12. after all, the chance to impress the home buyers by flaunting


    13. flaunting his five minutes of fame: he was soon fired thereafter


    14. The anticipated thrill of flaunting Tobias in Michael's


    15. When Jon emerged, sullenly flaunting his bruised and battered countenance, he obviously had no idea how, or even if our association could possibly continue


    16. His loose jeans were tucked into untied Timberlands, flaunting his sculptured butt and thick legs


    17. Jungir Khan ruled Zamboula, and men whispered that Nafertari, the satrap's mistress, ruled Jungir Khan; but the people went their way, flaunting their myriad colors in the streets, bargaining, disputing, gambling, swilling, loving, as the people of Zamboula have done for all the centuries its towers and minarets have lifted over the sands of the Kharamun


    18. It was not at the agonized contortions and posturing of the wretched boy that he was shocked, but at the cosmic obscenity of these beings which could drag to light the abysmal secrets that sleep in the unfathomed darkness of the human soul, and find pleasure in the brazen flaunting of such things as should not be hinted at, even in restless nightmares


    19. emphasizing and flaunting appearance or by trying to hide it


    20. If they lived outside of this privileged community, this insulated society, they would either have to be more careful about flaunting their sexuality or suffer the consequences

    21. He was an abominable wretch to put Faye through such misery, especially here on their vacation; it was as though he was flaunting his actions in hopes that she should lose her temper and suggest a separation, leaving him to his amorous duties elsewhere but without the social partner his wealth demanded


    22. Though they had never been close friends, they had worked together on cases in the past and got along quite well, due in part to their mutual, longstanding friendship with Lowell, but Bobby Dan was too keen on flaunting his name and his reputation in the faces of those near him, due in part to his deep-rooted political ambitions that were instilled in him as a child by his well-connected grandfather


    23. He got sidetracked by flaunting his might, and also for his involvement with the whores and the Philistines themselves


    24. Today he maintains a wealthy lifestyle near Miami Florida, flaunting expensive cars, a beautiful house, and gold and diamond jewelry, financed by his mostly Hispanic followers in Latin America and the United States who contribute millions of dollars to his ministry


    25. He just simply went about his business flaunting his false death like a new pair of shoes


    26. convention and guiltless flaunting of rules and laws in a manner


    27. flaunting her hips as she walked towards her car


    28. provocative and flaunting her body to taunt the inmates


    29. Still, many thought it was a direct challenge from the Captian himself, testing their mettle by her flaunting her freedom in front of their faces, while a few were simply looking out for her best interest


    30. " Thus natives with Neptune sextile Pluto within one degree of exactness are the most compulsively pragmatic and individualistic – not in the sense of being rebellious or flaunting their independence of spirit, but rather they are self-contained lone wolves

    31. It was further decided that it was no longer necessary to conceal his identity, but even so they didn’t go flaunting it


    32. ‘What an amazing development though! But how on earth did Sathyam land up with such a dame! Maybe, owing to my destiny to have her, who knows? Whatever, won’t his friendship prove to be a thoroughfare to her favors? Just the same, won’t she need some wooing as well? I might as well dazzle Roopa straight away by flaunting my credentials right away


    33. Now, how would it look for the Royal Family to be giving tacit approval and sanctuary to someone so blatantly flaunting Church law?” He thought he might have seen a slight smile at the corner of Dafne’s mouth


    34. 'The king's officers were informed that a certain candidate for high office was flaunting his new title before his appointment had received royal approval


    35. Do you, then, want to be pitied? I will pity you if you like, in so many carefully chosen words; but they will not be words from the heart but only, as the charming little child in the flat below us, the child with the flaunting yellow hair and audacious eyes, said of some speech that didn't ring true to her quick ears, 'from the tip of the nose


    36. Why is this? could it be that when they were categorized as a class for thousands of years… they were universally hated by all the other classes? And that they finally learned after the flaunting of their wealth publicly, during what western history calls the Gilded Age never again to flaunt their wealth and their power as a class so blatantly?


    37. Then came the revolutionary idea of not falling hopelessly in love with the warlord’s wife… but with one of the ladies of the castle, or the ‘keep’ instead; was broken by the idea of the killer knight flaunting all conventional traditions and customs and running away with the lady they were supposedly in love with


    38. This flaunting of the customs of romance created a huge public approval by the lower class that finally could vicariously triumph over their hated rulers


    39. privilege and flaunting of wealth


    40. Wearing those short skirts of hers, flaunting herself, the bitch asked for it

    41. Who is fooling who; in this travesty of a survival tactic that has been obsolete for over three billions years? Are the sponge stores fooling themselves that they are being upwardly mobile, or supremely cunning and smart? By getting rich off wandering customers? So the mobile masses can be sucked dry of their wealth by being sold services and products that are supposed to label them as having a special status? With special, exclusive upwardly mobile services and products that only rich people can afford… to display their excess conspicuous consumption in public? Aping the rich nobles of the past, who defined the idea of conspicuous consumption by flaunting their obscene wealth in front of the starving masses, while sneering at their poverty?


    42. Flaunting their wealth to the world in arrogant pride; by holding the most extravagant, expensive parties, and balls for the most exclusive bunch of corrupt Robber Barons they could find


    43. It took 2,000 fucking years for Sulla’s Roman circus of a parade… complete with Roman dwarves, Roman midgets and Roman freaks, to be brought back to life again by European and American culture adopting this flaunting of sexual perversion and evil in public


    44. And the butterflies are flaunting across the rides in the Forest


    45. You prostitutes flaunting over the trottoirs or obscene in your rooms, Who am I that I should call you more obscene than myself?


    46. tawdry flaunting style than were the clothes I escaped to him in, and of


    47. It was showered and flounced with cream-colored Chantilly lace that had on the arm of the Zouave, in an applegreen tarlatan so wide that it reduced her waist to come from Charleston on the last blockader, and Maybelle was flaunting it as saucily as if she and not the famous Captain Butler had run the blockade


    48. The man was plain stupid; worse, he was arrogant about it, flaunting his frequent logic lapses


    49. I wasn’t flaunting my money


    50. WHY DID I LOVE HER so much? Surely someone will read these pages and ask: What was so lovable about her? What was it that caused you, of all beings, so to love? You, a lover of men and women, a vampire, a destroyer of innocent souls, so to love? You, the focus of so much easy affection, and forever flaunting your hopeful stinging charm-why did you love her? What should I say? I didn't know her age





    1. That is none of your business - even if she flaunts the relationship in front of you


    2. There is something Nixonesque, however, about an individual who flaunts federal subpoenas


    3. veloped by specialized training, but the man who flaunts such


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    Synonyms for "flaunt"

    flaunt flash ostentate show off swank spread display flourish parade show trot out

    "flaunt" definitions

    the act of displaying something ostentatiously


    display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously