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cantnoun1 the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizona steep cant of the riverbank at that turn in the river diagonal, grade, gradient, inclination, incline, lean, pitch, rake, slant, slope, upgrade ascent, bank, climb, rise declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, dip, downgrade, fall, hang, hanging, receding cantnoun2the pretending of having virtues, principles, or beliefs that one in fact does not havemany accused the evangelist of cant, since his lavish lifestyle seemed to bear little resemblance to what he was preaching dissembling, dissimulation, hypocrisy, insincerity, piousness deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, double-dealing, falsity, perfidy, two-facednessaffectation, affectedness, pretense(or pretence), pretension, pretentiousness, sanctimoniousness, self-righteousness, self-satisfactionduplicity, fakery, falseness, fraudulentness, shammingartificiality, glibness, oiliness, smoothness, unctuousness genuineness, sincereness, sincerity candor, directness, forthrightness, frankness, honesty, openheartedness, openness, probity, straightforwardness, truthfulnessartlessness, guilelessness, naturalness, unaffectedness the special terms or expressions of a particular group or fieldthe colorful cant used by movie producers and publicity agents in Hollywood argot, dialect, jargon, jive, language, lingo, patois, patter, shop, shoptalk, slang, terminology, vocabulary colloquial, colloquialism, idiom, localism, parlance, pidgin, provincialism, regionalism, speech, vernacular, vernacularismslanguagebureaucratese, computerese, cyberspeak, educationese, governmentese, journalese, technobabble cantadjectiverunning in a slanting directionthe cant buttresses on the interior walls are made of solid oak canted, diagonal, graded, inclined, leaning, listing, oblique, pitched, raked, slant, slanted, slantwise, sloped, sloping, tilted, tilting horizontal, levelplumb, up-and-down, verticalparallel, perpendicular cantverbto set or cause to be at an anglecarefully canted the ladder against the wall angle, cock, heel, incline, lean, list, pitch, slant, slope, tilt, tip bankbend, deviate, swerve, veerdecline, descend, recline, retreat even, flatten, level, straighten in the 14th century |