Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
much-vaunted
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
much-vaunted
▪ There’s little sign that the much-vaunted IT investment is pulling France out of recession.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Christopher cut through her much-vaunted intelligence and she degenerated into passivity.
▪ The government's much-vaunted desire to consult operated only within those limits.
▪ Viewed from the Winter palace the much-vaunted power of the monarchy seemed distinctly overrated.
Usage examples of "much-vaunted".
Kennedy had said not to a press conference in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, nor to the sixty-nine million Americans who had voted, but to just one American that interested Tom Jefferson more when, on the ninth day of November 1960, he left his home in Miami Shores and drove to the safe house at 6312 Riviera Drive in Coral Gables to meet Frank Sorges and to hear that much-vaunted tape.
The pear orchards had withered to neat rows of twisted black skeletons, the much-vaunted flock of Silver-marsh sheep lay bloated and huffing in their brown pasture, and the vineyard had vanished beneath a snowy blanket of white mold.