cant
cant1 / kant/ • n. 1. hypocritical and sanctimonious talk, typically of a moral, religious, or political nature.2. [as adj.] denoting a phrase or catchword temporarily current or in fashion: they are misrepresented as, in the cant word of our day, uncaring. ∎ language peculiar to a specified group or profession and regarded with disparagement: thieves' cant.• v. [intr.] dated talk hypocritically and sanctimoniously about something: if they'd stop canting about “honest work,” they might get somewhere.cant2 • v. [tr.] cause (something) to be in a slanting or oblique position; tilt: he canted his head to look at the screen. ∎ [intr.] take or have a slanting position: mismatched slate roofs canted at all angles.• n. 1. [in sing.] a slope or tilt: the outward cant of the curving walls.2. a wedge-shaped block of wood, esp. one remaining after the better-quality pieces have been cut off.