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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   cant

   • IPA[kant]

   美式

   • n.
     hypocritical and sanctimonious talk, typically of a moral, religious, or political nature；language peculiar to a specified group or profession and regarded with disparagement
   • v.
     talk hypocritically and sanctimoniously about something

   • noun: cant

2. • 釋義

   n.

   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 hypocrisy, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, humbug, pietism, ... 更多affected piety, insincerity, sham, lip service, empty talk, pretense, rarePharisaism, Tartufferie反義詞 sincerity
   • 2. language peculiar to a specified group or profession and regarded with disparagement thieves' cant 同義詞 slang, jargon, idiom, argot, patter, ... 更多patois, vernacular, speech, terminology, language, informallingo, -speak, -ese
   • ▪ denoting a phrase or catchword temporarily current or in fashion they are misrepresented as, in the cant word of our day, uncaring

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. dated talk hypocritically and sanctimoniously about something if they'd stop canting about “honest work,” they might get somewhere