CANT


Meaning of CANT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kænt ]

If you refer to moral or religious statements as cant , you are criticizing them because you think the person making them does not really believe what they are saying.

...politicians holding forth with their usual hypocritical cant.

N-UNCOUNT [ disapproval ]

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