cant
/kant/
verb
talk hypocritically and sanctimoniously about something.
"if they'd stop canting about “honest work,” they might get somewhere"
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The meaning of CANTING is affectedly pious or righteous. How to use canting in a sentence.
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adjective · genuine · sincere · unfeigned · artless · honest · candid · heartfelt · direct · plain · undesigning.
adjective. affectedly or hypocritically pious or righteous: a canting social reformer.
1. To lean to one side; slant. 2. To take an oblique direction or course; swing around, as a ship.
The earliest known use of the adjective canting is in the 1870s. OED's earliest evidence for canting is from 1877, in a glossary by Edward Peacock.
Insincere; hypocritical.... Click for pronunciations, examples sentences, video.