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noun kantkænt mass noun1Hypocritical and sanctimonious talk, typically of a moral, religious, or political nature. （尤指道德、宗教或政治方面的）伪善言辞；道貌岸然的话 he had no time for the cant of the priests about sin 他没时间去听那些牧师们有关罪愆的伪善言辞。 Example sentencesExamples - For cant, humbug and moral spinelessness, this took some beating.
- Most orthodox historians think that comments like these are mere hypocritical cant.
- Conservatism is realistic, honest, consistent, and opposed to cant.
- Any cant about representing farming is hollow and hypocritical.
- No matter how tightly you wrap yourself in the flag the stench of untramelled cant and hypocrisy always emerges.
- Yet the forthright honesty and steely lucidity of his voice in these interviews, his impatience with cant and pious waffle, also bear witness to the virtues of that rationality.
- While the Irish government generates a lot of noisy, self-righteous cant about the evils of cigarettes at home, it makes a pretty packet from ‘selling death’ abroad.
- Maybe it is time to reject cant and hypocrisy, shed this sham of political correctness.
- One feels that there is something healthy in his instinctive ability to cut through cant, including the ‘politically correct’ variety.
- That embarrassment reminds you that Le Carré's Cold War-era novels were so good precisely because they were devoid of cant and moral sloganeering.
- Politics and bureaucracy take over, however packaged in pedagogical cant about mentoring.
- What pitiable cant to say, ‘She will live forever in my memory!’
- In the purest form, realism holds that ideology has little impact on state behaviour but is rather a cloak to disguise the pursuit of real interests in the cant of religious or secular philosophy or rhetoric.
- He sees it as the paper's duty to expose cant and hypocrisy,’ said the source.
- Bloom, a pugnacious professor, says that he reads to clear his mind of cant and for self-improvement, not to influence others, which seems somewhat disingenuous given the subject of his book.
- The common factor among the marchers was a rejection of cant, lies and hypocrisy.
- Their hypocrisy, their cant and their lies are nailed to the wall and flayed with such devastating honesty and accuracy that one wonders how anyone could ever dare to be associated with their names again.
- Its satirical swipes at hypocrisy and cant make it a topical work amid the political spin of today.
- They will be exposed for things called hypocrisy and cant, and they will not get away with it.
- It annoyed Flaubert mightily that purveyors of political cant should be greeted with more ballyhoo than gifted poets.
Synonyms hypocrisy, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, humbug, pietism, affected piety, insincerity, sham, lip service, empty talk, pretence rare Pharisaism, Tartufferie 2Language specific to a particular group or profession and regarded with disparagement. 黑话，切口 盗贼的黑话。 Example sentencesExamples - Postmodern cant has also softened up many intellectuals for the renewed assaults of creationists, now taking form as ‘Intelligent Design Theory.’
- Otherwise his book is refreshingly free of theoretical cant or jargon, despite some nostalgia for a Marxist perspective and a deference to critics like Lukacs.
- Wellington is changing by the hour: corporations now rule, the cant of the marketplace is all we can find.
- One has entered the cant and canon of literary criticism.
- Pat still gives lessons on the Traveller Language cant.
- ‘We only want to ensure that potential reviewers of our software have the most current version’ is an approximation of the cant prepared for the job.
- Fagin, Sykes and Dodger use much more Dickensian language and pepper their sentences with thieves' cant.
- Except this time, gibberish is thieves' cant for… well… thieves' cant.
- This is the essential function of a cliché, and of cant and jargon; to neutralise expression and ‘vanish memory’.
- Many words in English have obscure origins, particularly those which may be said to have risen in the world from lowly origins in argot, cant or slang.
- The history of various families in Athy, their way of life, religion, superstition, Traveller cures and the Traveller language or cant are all documented.
- This was not a constructed language, but a secret vocabulary, a cant or argot in the linguist's term, which uses the grammar and syntax of English as well as most of its core vocabulary.
- Yet Smith also saw that the roots of ‘this frugality’ ran much deeper than Calvinist cant or even moral rectitude.
- Some were familiar with the culture of the London underworld, and thieves' cant became the ‘flash’ language of the barracks and factories.
- The regional intonations, like the period slang and cant and contemporary allusions of the time, are brilliantly captured.
Synonyms slang, jargon, idiom, argot, patter, patois, vernacular, speech, terminology, language informal lingo, -speak, -ese - 2.1as modifier Denoting a phrase or catchword temporarily current or in fashion.
流行语 ‘herstories’ rather than ‘histories’ as the cant phrase goes 作为流行语的“她者历史”而非“他者历史”。 Example sentencesExamples - Such poets as these, and Lowell especially, gave rise to the critics' cant phrase, ‘confessional poetry’, which is seriously unhelpful.
- There is, to be sure, room for adjustment to the GST tax base, most of which should take the form of ‘rollback’, to adopt the cant phrase of the day.
- The Subla Centre is named after the traveller gammon or cant word for young unattached male and was set up to address the chronic lack of training and education opportunities available to these teenagers.
- In literary conversations, he is only capable of repeating cant phrases and dropping names.
verb kantkænt [no object]dated Talk hypocritically and sanctimoniously about something. 〈旧〉发表伪善的言论；说道貌岸然的话 if they'd stop canting about ‘honest work’ they might get somewhere 如果他们不再说“诚实工作”这类的虚伪话，他们会有所进益。 Example sentencesExamples - Imitating the canting voice of a hypocritical preacher, Douglass then gave a several-paragraph sermon based on the principle that obedience to the slavemaster is obedience to God.
- They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering.
- Such acts are incompatible with high office. I'm therefore writing to you to request that you do all you can to ensure that this disgrace steps down and shuts up forever, as whatever he has to say can only be the vilest canting hypocrisy,
- For someone who's worked in the media for 10 years, the idea that illicit passion is not part of that is such nonsense that I think maybe it's time some of the canting stopped.
- After failing in a defamation case against the West Australian newspaper - which called him a ‘lying, canting humbug’ - he left Western Australia in disgrace.
OriginEarly 16th century: probably from Latin cantare 'to sing' (see chant). The early meaning was 'musical sound, singing'; in the mid 17th century this gave rise to the senses 'whining manner of speaking' and 'form of words repeated mechanically in such a manner' (for example a beggar's plea), hence 'jargon' (of beggars and other such groups). Rhymesant, Brabant, Brandt, brant, enceinte, extant, gallant, Kant, levant, pant, pointe, pointes, rant, scant verb kantkænt 1Have or cause to have a slanting or oblique position; tilt. 使（某物）倾斜，使翘起 with object he canted his head to look at the screen 他翘着头看着屏幕。 no object mismatched slate roofs canted at all angles 错配的石板屋顶四处起翘。 Example sentencesExamples - The stern is intact, though canted over to lie on its starboard side, like the rest of the wreck.
- When Melissa canted her head to slant away the strand of straight blond hair, my eyes focused on her lips.
- If you are right-handed, the arrow is on the right side of the bow, and if left - handed, on the left side. The bow is generally slightly canted to the arrow side.
- In fact, it's not unusual to see a woman wearing high heels to make herself look taller, while canting her head to one side to make herself look shorter.
- Mistaking it for swelling ardour, he cants his hips in just the wrong way again.
- Because of the way it is constructed, the socket on a goosewing axe can rather easily be slanted, or canted away from the plane of the blade by the blacksmith.
- He was a man above middle-age, with a sharp and wizened face, and he held his head canted so that he seemed to be ear-first as he faced you.
- In order to grant the west front of the Campus Center a respectable height, Koolhaas canted the roof to accommodate the tube, leaving a roughly V-shaped south elevation.
- Hand-made of fine leather and trimmed in exotic alligator, the holster can be positioned straight, or canted forward for even more versatility.
- It has bulging ‘eyes,’ gaunt looking wings, and triple vertical stabilizers - the two outermost canted inward.
- My chest hurts and my body feels canted at the wrong angle.
- Because of the angle, we were canted back in our seats rather like being in an aircraft when it makes a steep ascent.
- She leaned against the bulkhead canting her head with a sigh.
- Although some of the details might not be sophisticated enough for Soane, it is difficult to imagine that the form of the space with its canted walls was not directly influenced by him.
- I agree that there is probably too much tertiary education, and/or that education is canted towards academic subjects which already have too many graduates rather than practical or vocational skills.
- This holster can also be canted from a vertical position to a grip-forward or muzzle-forward position.
- With its canted fairways framed by windswept dunes, Spanish Bay is a tribute to Scottish golf.
- The wreck here is open above, with the remains of the engine canted to port.
- But it does take me a while to work out that the canted pillars with cups on top and pistons on the side are depth-charge catapults.
- Tom suddenly slid out from beneath Aligore, skimming on his back across the canted deck.
Synonyms tilt, lean, slant, slope, incline, angle, be at an angle - 1.1no object (of a ship) swing round.
（船）改变方向 the ship canted to starboard 船向右改变了航向。 Example sentencesExamples - Just then, the entire vessel canted to one side, as if thrown there by some unimaginable force.
- The ship canted, slipping from its high and imperious plane as three missiles slammed into the armour, their icy casings erupting into a sundering coldfire ball that burned in the craters.
- The extension of the canting space at deepwater berths to provide for vessels up to 450 feet long is at present in hand.
- The problem, again, is the ship is canted over at such an angle, they may not even be able to use their escape trunks because, you know, because the degree to which the ship is tilted prevents the hatches from opening.
- The ship canted and slipped to one side, tables and chairs going flying with an awful crash as the floor undulated like a sea and tried to become one with the wall.
Synonyms tilt, lean, slant, slope, incline, angle, be at an angle
noun kantkænt 1in singular A slope or tilt. 斜面；倾斜 the outward cant of the curving walls 外斜的曲墙。 Example sentencesExamples - Quite a bit, but either the cant or the pitch or the structure curiously muted it.
- The yacht lay alongside the pier at a sharp cant, its left side decks awash with water.
- Or it can be as subtle as a paper cut, like the approach shot at 18, where the cant of the fairway encourages a pull into the river.
- The three components of alignment are horizontal, vertical and cant, regardless of the typical cross sections encountered.
- The model 05 Equalizer is a belt mounted speed rig with a near-vertical cant.
- The LP can be ordered for either autos or revolvers, with a straight drop or a slight cant.
- He noticed the grim, tight set of the older man's mouth, the hangdog cant of the younger's head, and Black fidgeting nervously beside.
- The forward mast has a noticeable cant aft.
- In his view the problem was caused by the cant not being placed so as to abut the vertical inside wall of the parapet, thus allowing a space between the vertical surface of the cant and the vertical inside surface of the parapet.
- The intruder made no movement save a slight cant of its cowled head as Tristen drew a heavy metal blade from behind the headboard of his massive bed.
- A holster that really fit the gun, and with just the right cant for my beat-to-death shoulders to deal with.
- It had a different cant to it, this time, and her eyes were narrowed.
- Then you can reconfigure the mag carrier to a straight vertical or drop-down pull and adjust the holster to a slight cant or straight draw angle for a day at the range or concealed carry.
- But it was the cant of their heads and the look on their faces that told Mugolo all he needed to know about these men.
- You can adjust the cant to your preference for strong side carry, or set the rig up for cross draw if you're working out of a car for long periods.
- The filter states include displacements from the nominal track, the cant, and the track gauge.
Synonyms slope, slant, tilt, angle, inclination 2A wedge-shaped block of wood, especially one remaining after the better-quality pieces have been cut off. （尤指较好部分砍掉后的）楔形木材 a squared-off cant remains, containing the knottiest wood Example sentencesExamples - Yet, MB did not know even the basic dimensions of wood used in Japanese house construction and was opposed by the sogo shosha it had relied on to export its cants.
- Because the Micromill SLP5000D is self-reliant it can be set up in remote locations including new burn areas to process small logs into cants and dimension lumber.
OriginMiddle English (denoting an edge or brink): from Middle Low German kant, kante, Middle Dutch cant 'point, side, edge', based on a Romance word related to medieval Latin cantus 'corner, side'. nounkantkænt 1Hypocritical and sanctimonious talk, typically of a moral, religious, or political nature. （尤指道德、宗教或政治方面的）伪善言辞；道貌岸然的话 the liberal case against all censorship is often cant Example sentencesExamples - He sees it as the paper's duty to expose cant and hypocrisy,’ said the source.
- In the purest form, realism holds that ideology has little impact on state behaviour but is rather a cloak to disguise the pursuit of real interests in the cant of religious or secular philosophy or rhetoric.
- Maybe it is time to reject cant and hypocrisy, shed this sham of political correctness.
- What pitiable cant to say, ‘She will live forever in my memory!’
- Yet the forthright honesty and steely lucidity of his voice in these interviews, his impatience with cant and pious waffle, also bear witness to the virtues of that rationality.
- For cant, humbug and moral spinelessness, this took some beating.
- Any cant about representing farming is hollow and hypocritical.
- Bloom, a pugnacious professor, says that he reads to clear his mind of cant and for self-improvement, not to influence others, which seems somewhat disingenuous given the subject of his book.
- No matter how tightly you wrap yourself in the flag the stench of untramelled cant and hypocrisy always emerges.
- That embarrassment reminds you that Le Carré's Cold War-era novels were so good precisely because they were devoid of cant and moral sloganeering.
- Most orthodox historians think that comments like these are mere hypocritical cant.
- While the Irish government generates a lot of noisy, self-righteous cant about the evils of cigarettes at home, it makes a pretty packet from ‘selling death’ abroad.
- One feels that there is something healthy in his instinctive ability to cut through cant, including the ‘politically correct’ variety.
- Politics and bureaucracy take over, however packaged in pedagogical cant about mentoring.
- Its satirical swipes at hypocrisy and cant make it a topical work amid the political spin of today.
- Conservatism is realistic, honest, consistent, and opposed to cant.
- Their hypocrisy, their cant and their lies are nailed to the wall and flayed with such devastating honesty and accuracy that one wonders how anyone could ever dare to be associated with their names again.
- They will be exposed for things called hypocrisy and cant, and they will not get away with it.
- It annoyed Flaubert mightily that purveyors of political cant should be greeted with more ballyhoo than gifted poets.
- The common factor among the marchers was a rejection of cant, lies and hypocrisy.
Synonyms hypocrisy, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, humbug, pietism, affected piety, insincerity, sham, lip service, empty talk, pretence 2Language peculiar to a specified group or profession and regarded with disparagement. 黑话，切口 盗贼的黑话。 Example sentencesExamples - This is the essential function of a cliché, and of cant and jargon; to neutralise expression and ‘vanish memory’.
- This was not a constructed language, but a secret vocabulary, a cant or argot in the linguist's term, which uses the grammar and syntax of English as well as most of its core vocabulary.
- One has entered the cant and canon of literary criticism.
- The history of various families in Athy, their way of life, religion, superstition, Traveller cures and the Traveller language or cant are all documented.
- Except this time, gibberish is thieves' cant for… well… thieves' cant.
- ‘We only want to ensure that potential reviewers of our software have the most current version’ is an approximation of the cant prepared for the job.
- Pat still gives lessons on the Traveller Language cant.
- Yet Smith also saw that the roots of ‘this frugality’ ran much deeper than Calvinist cant or even moral rectitude.
- Otherwise his book is refreshingly free of theoretical cant or jargon, despite some nostalgia for a Marxist perspective and a deference to critics like Lukacs.
- Postmodern cant has also softened up many intellectuals for the renewed assaults of creationists, now taking form as ‘Intelligent Design Theory.’
- Some were familiar with the culture of the London underworld, and thieves' cant became the ‘flash’ language of the barracks and factories.
- Fagin, Sykes and Dodger use much more Dickensian language and pepper their sentences with thieves' cant.
- Many words in English have obscure origins, particularly those which may be said to have risen in the world from lowly origins in argot, cant or slang.
- Wellington is changing by the hour: corporations now rule, the cant of the marketplace is all we can find.
- The regional intonations, like the period slang and cant and contemporary allusions of the time, are brilliantly captured.
Synonyms slang, jargon, idiom, argot, patter, patois, vernacular, speech, terminology, language - 2.1as modifier Denoting a phrase or catchword temporarily current or in fashion.
流行语 they are misrepresented as, in the cant word of our day, uncaring Example sentencesExamples - In literary conversations, he is only capable of repeating cant phrases and dropping names.
- The Subla Centre is named after the traveller gammon or cant word for young unattached male and was set up to address the chronic lack of training and education opportunities available to these teenagers.
- There is, to be sure, room for adjustment to the GST tax base, most of which should take the form of ‘rollback’, to adopt the cant phrase of the day.
- Such poets as these, and Lowell especially, gave rise to the critics' cant phrase, ‘confessional poetry’, which is seriously unhelpful.
verbkantkænt [no object]dated Talk hypocritically and sanctimoniously about something. 〈旧〉发表伪善的言论；说道貌岸然的话 if they'd stop canting about “honest work,” they might get somewhere 如果他们不再说“诚实工作”这类的虚伪话，他们会有所进益。 Example sentencesExamples - Imitating the canting voice of a hypocritical preacher, Douglass then gave a several-paragraph sermon based on the principle that obedience to the slavemaster is obedience to God.
- After failing in a defamation case against the West Australian newspaper - which called him a ‘lying, canting humbug’ - he left Western Australia in disgrace.
- Such acts are incompatible with high office. I'm therefore writing to you to request that you do all you can to ensure that this disgrace steps down and shuts up forever, as whatever he has to say can only be the vilest canting hypocrisy,
- They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering.
- For someone who's worked in the media for 10 years, the idea that illicit passion is not part of that is such nonsense that I think maybe it's time some of the canting stopped.
OriginEarly 16th century: probably from Latin cantare ‘to sing’ (see chant). The early meaning was ‘musical sound, singing’; in the mid 17th century this gave rise to the senses ‘whining manner of speaking’ and ‘form of words repeated mechanically in such a manner’ (for example a beggar's plea), hence ‘jargon’ (of beggars and other such groups). verbkæntkant [with object]1Cause (something) to be in a slanting or oblique position; tilt. 使（某物）倾斜，使翘起 he canted his head to look at the screen 他翘着头看着屏幕。 Example sentencesExamples - She leaned against the bulkhead canting her head with a sigh.
- I agree that there is probably too much tertiary education, and/or that education is canted towards academic subjects which already have too many graduates rather than practical or vocational skills.
- In order to grant the west front of the Campus Center a respectable height, Koolhaas canted the roof to accommodate the tube, leaving a roughly V-shaped south elevation.
- Mistaking it for swelling ardour, he cants his hips in just the wrong way again.
- But it does take me a while to work out that the canted pillars with cups on top and pistons on the side are depth-charge catapults.
- If you are right-handed, the arrow is on the right side of the bow, and if left - handed, on the left side. The bow is generally slightly canted to the arrow side.
- He was a man above middle-age, with a sharp and wizened face, and he held his head canted so that he seemed to be ear-first as he faced you.
- In fact, it's not unusual to see a woman wearing high heels to make herself look taller, while canting her head to one side to make herself look shorter.
- The wreck here is open above, with the remains of the engine canted to port.
- When Melissa canted her head to slant away the strand of straight blond hair, my eyes focused on her lips.
- Because of the angle, we were canted back in our seats rather like being in an aircraft when it makes a steep ascent.
- It has bulging ‘eyes,’ gaunt looking wings, and triple vertical stabilizers - the two outermost canted inward.
- My chest hurts and my body feels canted at the wrong angle.
- This holster can also be canted from a vertical position to a grip-forward or muzzle-forward position.
- Although some of the details might not be sophisticated enough for Soane, it is difficult to imagine that the form of the space with its canted walls was not directly influenced by him.
- Because of the way it is constructed, the socket on a goosewing axe can rather easily be slanted, or canted away from the plane of the blade by the blacksmith.
- With its canted fairways framed by windswept dunes, Spanish Bay is a tribute to Scottish golf.
- The stern is intact, though canted over to lie on its starboard side, like the rest of the wreck.
- Tom suddenly slid out from beneath Aligore, skimming on his back across the canted deck.
- Hand-made of fine leather and trimmed in exotic alligator, the holster can be positioned straight, or canted forward for even more versatility.
Synonyms tilt, lean, slant, slope, incline, angle, be at an angle - 1.1no object Take or have a slanting position.
倾斜，翘起 mismatched slate roofs canted at all angles 错配的石板屋顶四处起翘。 Example sentencesExamples - Its smallish greens slant and cant at aggravating angles.
Synonyms tilt, lean, slant, slope, incline, angle, be at an angle
nounkæntkant 1in singular A slope or tilt. 斜面；倾斜 the outward cant of the curving walls 外斜的曲墙。 Example sentencesExamples - You can adjust the cant to your preference for strong side carry, or set the rig up for cross draw if you're working out of a car for long periods.
- The model 05 Equalizer is a belt mounted speed rig with a near-vertical cant.
- Or it can be as subtle as a paper cut, like the approach shot at 18, where the cant of the fairway encourages a pull into the river.
- The forward mast has a noticeable cant aft.
- The LP can be ordered for either autos or revolvers, with a straight drop or a slight cant.
- Then you can reconfigure the mag carrier to a straight vertical or drop-down pull and adjust the holster to a slight cant or straight draw angle for a day at the range or concealed carry.
- But it was the cant of their heads and the look on their faces that told Mugolo all he needed to know about these men.
- Quite a bit, but either the cant or the pitch or the structure curiously muted it.
- The intruder made no movement save a slight cant of its cowled head as Tristen drew a heavy metal blade from behind the headboard of his massive bed.
- The three components of alignment are horizontal, vertical and cant, regardless of the typical cross sections encountered.
- He noticed the grim, tight set of the older man's mouth, the hangdog cant of the younger's head, and Black fidgeting nervously beside.
- A holster that really fit the gun, and with just the right cant for my beat-to-death shoulders to deal with.
- It had a different cant to it, this time, and her eyes were narrowed.
- The yacht lay alongside the pier at a sharp cant, its left side decks awash with water.
- The filter states include displacements from the nominal track, the cant, and the track gauge.
- In his view the problem was caused by the cant not being placed so as to abut the vertical inside wall of the parapet, thus allowing a space between the vertical surface of the cant and the vertical inside surface of the parapet.
Synonyms slope, slant, tilt, angle, inclination 2A wedge-shaped block of wood, especially one remaining after the better-quality pieces have been cut off. （尤指较好部分砍掉后的）楔形木材 Example sentencesExamples - Yet, MB did not know even the basic dimensions of wood used in Japanese house construction and was opposed by the sogo shosha it had relied on to export its cants.
- Because the Micromill SLP5000D is self-reliant it can be set up in remote locations including new burn areas to process small logs into cants and dimension lumber.
OriginMiddle English (denoting an edge or brink): from Middle Low German kant, kante, Middle Dutch cant ‘point, side, edge’, based on a Romance word related to medieval Latin cantus ‘corner, side’. |