cant

• affectation
• affected piety
• affectedness
• angle
• argot
• artificiality
• ascent
• bank
• bend
• bevel
• bureaucratese
• canted
• careen
• climb
• cock
• colloquial
• colloquialism
• computerese
• cyberspeak
• deceit
• deceitfulness
• deception
• deceptiveness
• decline
• descend
• deviate
• diagonal
• dialect
• diction
• dishonesty
• dissembling
• dissimulation
• double-dealing
• duplicity
• educationese
• fakery
• falseness
• falsity
• fraudulentness
• glibness
• governmentese
• grade
• graded
• gradient
• heel
• humbug
• hypocrisy
• hypocriticalness
• idiom
• inclination
• incline
• inclined
• insincerity
• jargon
• jive
• journalese
• language
• lean
• leaning
• lingo
• lip service
• list
• listing
• localism
• oblique
• oiliness
• parlance
• patois
• patter
• pecksniffery
• perfidy
• pharisaicalness
• phraseology
• pidgin
• pious platitudes
• piousness
• pitch
• pitched
• pomposity
• pretence
• pretense
• pretension
• pretentiousness
• provincialism
• rake
• raked
• recline
• regionalism
• retreat
• rise
• sanctimoniousness
• sanctimony
• self-righteousness
• self-satisfaction
• sham holiness
• shamming
• shop
• shoptalk
• show
• slang
• slanguage
• slant
• slanted
• slantwise
• slope
• sloped
• sloping
• smoothness
• speech
• swerve
• technobabble
• terminology
• tilt
• tilted
• tilting
• tip
• two-facedness
• unctuousness
• upgrade
• veer
• vernacular
• vernacularism
• vocabulary

• artlessness
• candor
• declension
• declination
• decline
• declivity
• descent
• dip
• directness
• downgrade
• even
• fall
• flatten
• forthrightness
• frankness
• genuineness
• guilelessness
• hang
• hanging
• honesty
• horizontal
• level
• naturalness
• openheartedness
• openness
• parallel
• perpendicular
• plumb
• probity
• reality
• receding
• sincereness
• sincerity
• standard
• straighten
• straightforwardness
• truth
• truthfulness
• unaffectedness
• up-and-down
• vertical

• noun
  1. An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
  2. A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
  3. A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
  4. Empty, hypocritical talk.
  5. Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
  6. A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
  7. A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
  8. Side, edge, corner, niche.
  9. Slope, the angle at which something is set.
  10. A corner (of a building).
  11. An outer or external angle.
  12. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
  13. A movement or throw that overturns something.
  14. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
  15. (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
  16. A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
  17. A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
  18. A parcel, a division.
• verb
  1. To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
  2. To speak in set phrases.
  3. To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
  4. Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
  5. To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
  6. To set (something) at an angle.
  7. To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
  8. To bevel an edge or corner.
  9. To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
  10. To divide or parcel out.
• adjective
  1. Lively, lusty.

• The politician's speech was full of empty cant and slogans.
• He quickly saw through the religious cant and false piety.
• The group spoke in a secret cant only they understood.
• Critics dismissed the novel as literary cant without substance.
• Her explanation sounded like pure cant, not genuine concern.

jargon

sag

bad faith

fakery

fall

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