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单词 cant
例句 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

cantnoun2

the 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

cantadjective

running 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

cantverb

to 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

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