63623 examples of cant in sentences

(1) Cant, descant, incantation, chant, enchant, chanticleer, accent, incentive; (2) canto, canticle, cantata, recant, chantry, chanson, precentor.

he sickened at such whining cant!

Bah! Palmer said the doctrine of nonresistance was whining cant.

There is just as much falsehood, cheating, and covetousness, I believe, in the world as ever there was; just as much cant and hypocrisy, and perhaps more; just as much envy, hatred, malice and all uncharitableness.

He laughed uproariously at their ecstatic manner, and ridiculed the cant of sensibility; and in solemn mood he struck in The Vanity of Human Wishes another blow at the heresy of optimism.

Here is a famous fellow of a mountain to the northward, coming down before the wind, as one might say, and giving us a cant into the passage.

[Fr.]; cant; elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle^, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run against, bump against, butt against; knock one's head against, run one's head against; impinge; boost [U.S.]; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out; jab, plug [Slang].

Waiving the point, whether it is right or wrong to make men bishops because they have been political partizans, the cause of this alleged injustice may be found in the tone of the times, which was eminently tinctured with cant.

Cant. 1. staff.

" Fielding, he says, was the inventor of a cant phrase, "Goodness of heart, which means little more than the virtue of a horse or a dog."

Are our praises of death in victory, then, all cant, and are all the eloquent rhapsodies of poets and essayists a sham?

Temperance and religion, if not morality, were to him mere cant words, and whether he was observed, either before dinner or after dinnerin the parlor or out of ithis words and manners were anything but those of a quiet, modest, English gentleman.

And here you come, using that cant Potterish phrase, "in love," as if love was the sea, or something definite that you must be in or out of and always know which.' 'The seayes,' Juke took me up.

Willis heard him, and instantly replied, in his own cant, "I am old 'tis trueand I'm rum sometimesand for once I'll be queerand I send you to quod.

You cant live by yourself; and papa may not welcome you back if you take my part against him.

But you cant have perfection.

But when if, after all, this godly gear Is not so senseless as it would appear; Our mountebank has laid a deeper train, His cant, like Merry-Andrew's noble vein, Cat-calls the sects to draw them in again.

"Grant me patience, just Heaven!Of all the cants which are canted in this canting worldthough the cant of hypocrites may be the worstthe cant of criticism is the most tormenting!"Sterne.

If it did, if people suddenly cleared their minds of this cant of money, what would happen?

Hence the Americans derive the cant phrase of "doing the sober Indian," which they apply to any one of a company who will not drink fairly.

Disgusting cant.

"I sleep," said the spouse, Cant.

Cromwell found cant prevalent on his stage, just as any great actor of that century found rant on his, and, like the actor, he used it occasionally as a means of gaining his own lofty ends, and as a foil to his own genuine earnestness and power.

Let sober judgment, clear of gush and cant, The bitter problem face!

Indeed she had been more than a little doubtful of him, for she had never felt attracted to him, and from her knowledge of the unhealthy religious atmosphere of the chapel, had got unreasonably suspicious of cant.

63623 examples of  cant  in sentences