搜尋結果
cant
- IPA[kant]
美式
- hypocritical and sanctimonious talk, typically of a moral, religious, or political nature;language peculiar to a specified group or profession and regarded with disparagement
- talk hypocritically and sanctimoniously about something
noun: cant
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. hypocritical and sanctimonious talk, typically of a moral, religious, or political nature he had no time for the cant of the priests about sin 同義詞 反義詞
- 2. language peculiar to a specified group or profession and regarded with disparagement thieves' cant 同義詞
- ▪ denoting a phrase or catchword temporarily current or in fashion they are misrepresented as, in the cant word of our day, uncaring
動詞
- 1. dated talk hypocritically and sanctimoniously about something if they'd stop canting about “honest work,” they might get somewhere