Synonyms for cant
kæntcant

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1. cant4

   Antonyms:
   must, be able to, can

2. cantcontraction

   cannot; is unable to; does not have the ability to

   I can't quite get it to work.

   Antonyms:
   can, be able to, must

3. cantcontraction

   To bevel an edge or corner.

   You can't enter the hall without a ticket.

   Antonyms:
   can, be able to, must

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1. cant

   Pretense (Latin prætendo) primarily signifies the holding something forward as having certain rights or claims, whether truly or falsely; in the good sense, it is now rarely used except with a negative; as, there can be no pretense that this is due; a false pretense implies the possibility of a true pretense; but, alone and unlimited, pretense commonly signifies the offering of something for what it is not. Hypocrisy is the false pretense of moral excellence, either as a cover for actual wrong, or for the sake of the credit and advantage attaching to virtue. Cant (Latin cantus, a song), primarily the singsong iteration of the language of any party, school, or sect, denotes the mechanical and pretentious use of religious phraseology, without corresponding feeling or character; sanctimoniousness is the assumption of a saintly manner without a saintly character. As cant is hypocrisy in utterance, so sanctimoniousness is hypocrisy in appearance, as in looks, tones, etc. Pietism, originally a word of good import, is now chiefly used for an unregulated emotionalism; formalism is an exaggerated devotion to forms, rites, and ceremonies, without corresponding earnestness of heart; sham (identical in origin with shame) is a trick or device that puts one to shame, or that shamefully disappoints expectation or falsifies appearance. Affectation is in matters of intellect, taste, etc., much what hypocrisy is in morals and religion; affectation might be termed petty hypocrisy. Compare DECEPTION.

   Synonyms:
   affectation, dissimulation, formalism, hypocrisy, pharisaism, pietism, pretense, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, sham

   Antonyms:
   candor, frankness, genuineness, honesty, ingenuousness, openness, sincerity, transparency, truth, truthfulness

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1. buzzword, cantnoun

   stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition

   Synonyms:
   slang, camber, chamfer, patois, bevel, vernacular, argot, bank, pious platitude, lingo, buzzword, jargon

2. bank, cant, cambernoun

   a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force

   Synonyms:
   argot, pious platitude, banking company, money box, banking concern, slang, chamfer, lingo, bank building, coin bank, patois, savings bank, vernacular, bevel, camber, jargon, bank, buzzword, depository financial institution

3. slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacularnoun

   a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

   "they don't speak our lingo"

   Synonyms:
   slang term, bevel, patois, slang, slang expression, vernacular, argot, pious platitude, lingo, camber, buzzword, jargon, chamfer, bank, jargoon

4. cant, pious platitudenoun

   insincere talk about religion or morals

   Synonyms:
   slang, camber, chamfer, patois, bevel, vernacular, argot, bank, pious platitude, lingo, buzzword, jargon

5. bevel, cant, chamferverb

   two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees

   Synonyms:
   slang, bevel, camber, chamfer, patois, bevel square, vernacular, argot, bank, pious platitude, lingo, buzzword, jargon

6. cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitchverb

   heel over

   "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"

   Synonyms:
   set up, pitch, lean, huckster, lurch, wobble, peddle, vend, tip, slope, careen, shift, tilt, hawk, flip, cant over, monger, deliver, incline, weight, angle, sky, toss, slant, gear

Matched Categories

1. • Non-standard Speech
   • Nonsense
   • Talk

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1. cantnoun

   Synonyms:
   whining or affected speech

2. cantnoun

   Synonyms:
   hypocrisy, pretence

3. cantnoun

   Synonyms:
   peculiar form of speech, professional terms

4. cantnoun

   Synonyms:
   slang, barbarous jargon, low language, inelegant expression

5. cantnoun

   Synonyms:
   auction, vendue, auction sale

6. cantnoun

   Synonyms:
   turn, tilt, slant

7. cantadjective

   Synonyms:
   hypocritical, insincere, hollow, canting

8. cantadjective

   Synonyms:
   vulgar, barbarous, unauthorized, inelegant

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1. cantnoun

   Synonyms:
   slope, tilt, turn, bias, impulse, prating, idioms, parlance, vocabulary, affected piety, hypocrisy, slang, jargon, lingo, argot

2. cantverb

   Synonyms:
   tilt, tip, incline

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1. Josh Green:

   [S]low thespread, test every contact --whatthey did in South Korea, Japan,where they succeeded.We cant let what happened to Italy happen toAmerica, thats why you are seeingstronger leadership up acrossthe board to say shut it down,slow the spread.

2. Mandy Joye:

   It was just a constant barrage of, You have got to be kidding me that cant be real.

3. Jason Furman:

   The problem with the economic side is that if it lasts more than a few months, it then takes on its own momentum, if you look across the United States and across other countries, the unemployment rate can go up very quickly, but it cant come back down very quickly. It never has. A business whose balance sheet is in tatters after nine months without revenues might go bankrupt, it might go out of business, or it wont be in position to hire people back immediately even if demand returns.

4. President Trump:

   I cant imagine that someone would want to be in a position of authority in our election system and in our democracy just to subvert it, i think these are public spirited people.I think these are patriots and they are doing their job to the best of their ability to make sure we get accurate, transparent results. When asked if a poll worker could use a USB thumb drive to add votes for a candidate, Steel said that the vote tabulators donot havesuch access. He also said they are not connected to the internet.

5. Elina Shirazi -RRB- Levy:

   I think one of the things that we struggle with is that you cant see it daily. You cant grasp the magnitude of it, but its still a national treasure for us and we should value it as such, this project, in particular, is going to take a lot more humans and dive power, as I like to call it, to actually achieve these numbers and the scale that we want to start working at.