flamboyant
adjective
strikingly bold or brilliant; showy.
flamboyance
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a word derived from
flamboyant.
Example Sentences
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Fisk’s flamboyance and Gould’s bribes made the Erie’s watered stock seem obviously crooked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The teenager, who hails from Parisian suburb Sarchelle, has played with freedom and flamboyance to become the fifth youngest man in French Open history to reach the third round.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
A later generation of sociologists might have diagnosed Göring’s martial flamboyance as a form of “homeovestism”—that is, exaggerated and often impractical gender-normative dress or behavior intended to signal elite social status.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
These artists know that flamboyance needn’t preclude subtlety, and that stardom neither guarantees nor bars revelation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
He likes these names, likes their oddness, their flamboyance.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
