I. noun
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His viewpoint is remarkably free of idealism or cant .
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Along with that sound goes the overpowering stench of mendacity and cant .
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And yet their eyes, their lips, a certain shy grin or quizzical cant of an eyebrow, look strangely familiar.
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But what about the cant of usury and the mode of treating that he ought to know?
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If there was one thing that he hated fervently it was affectation and cant .
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Instantly, Penn establishes himself as an unsympathetic Satan, even before he starts his white-supremacist cant .
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Their cant was not religious but phrenological.
II. verb
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The controls are canted toward the driver.
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Grave Digger clears all the yellow cars, canting far to one side.
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It maddened him and he canted athwart.
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She was sitting down by the gate, one hand on her neck, her head canted over at a fierce angle.
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This city could reconfigure parts of itself, great vitrodur panels sliding smoothly, tilting, canting.