vaunted

Highly or widely praised or boasted about.

• We know that many male City employees still go to lapdancing clubs for a fun night out. We know City organisations have struggled in their vaunted attempts to get more women on boards.
• AmEx also recently relaunched its vaunted Platinum card, offering more travel and shopping benefits for average consumers.

simple past and past participle of vauntform-ofparticiplepast