Vaunted
['vɔntɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Vaunt
Typed by Harrison
Examples
- The vaunted skill turns out gross ineptitude. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We cannot touch the disease, with all our poor vaunted skill. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The vaunted steadiness of pulse failed him for an instant. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- To reverse the process of the transformation and produce radium from the base metal lead would be an achievement greater than the vaunted transmutations of the alchemists. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- As to connexion, there Emma was perfectly easy; persuaded, that after all his own vaunted claims and disdain of Harriet, he had done nothing. Jane Austen. Emma.
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