CANT in a Sentence
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Example sentences for CANT, such as:
1. A good heart cant's lie.
2. let's talk in words of one syllable, without larding, stuffing or cant.
3. I strayed from my own voice and slipped into jargon, cant, or false sentiment.
4. In the matter of cant, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given points to a miss.
5. Don't you insult human relations by dragging all this cant about buying and selling into it.
2. let's talk in words of one syllable, without larding, stuffing or cant.
3. I strayed from my own voice and slipped into jargon, cant, or false sentiment.
4. In the matter of cant, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given points to a miss.
5. Don't you insult human relations by dragging all this cant about buying and selling into it.
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Meanings and Examples of CANT
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cant
n. inclination or slope; slanted or oblique surface; jargon, especially of thieves; dialect
Classic Sentence:
1 let's talk in words of one syllable, without larding, stuffing or cant.
2 He then, in cant terms, with which his whole conversation was plentifully besprinkled, but which would be quite unintelligible if they were recorded here, demanded a glass of liquor.
3 It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family.
4 Don't you insult human relations by dragging all this cant about buying and selling into it.
5 In the matter of cant, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given points to a miss.
6 Words and music have lost each other and new and cant phrases of a dimly understood theology have displaced the older sentiment.
Example Sentence:
1 I strayed from my own voice and slipped into jargon, cant, or false sentiment.
2 A good heart cant's lie.