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cant

/kant/US // kænt //UK // (kænt) //

坎特,罐头,罐子

Related Words

humbug胡说八道,胡说乱道,胡扯,谣言sanctimoniousness神圣性,圣洁性,神圣主义,圣洁show显示,展示,显示出,表明pretense幌子,伪装,矫饰,虚假hypocrisy虚伪性,伪善,虚伪,虚伪行为insincerity虚伪性,假意,不真诚,虚伪pretentiousness装腔作势,自命不凡,伪装,矫情sanctimony圣洁性,圣言,亵渎,圣洁pomposity浮夸风,浮夸,虚张声势,浮夸风气deceit骗术,骗局,欺骗,骗人dishonesty不诚实行为,不诚实的行为,不诚实,坏事patois土语,土话,行语,行话dialect方言,语,辩证法,辩证地看待diction措辞,用语,用词,措词language语言,语文,语言文字,语言的argot语汇,语录,词条,术语idiom习惯用语,习语,熟语,习惯性用语vernacular白话,白话文,白话语,土话phraseology用语,用词slang俚语,俗语,俚俗语,俗话

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.
    • : the private language of the underworld.
    • : the phraseology peculiar to a particular class, party, profession, etc.: the cant of the fashion industry.
    • : whining or singsong speech, especially of beggars.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to talk hypocritically.
    • : to speak in the whining or singsong tone of a beggar; beg.

Phrases

  • can't abide
  • can't but
  • can't complain
  • can't do anything with
  • can't fight City Hall
  • can't help
  • can't hit the broad side of a barn
  • can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
  • can't make head or tail of
  • can't punch one's way out of a paper bag
  • can't see beyond the end of one's nose.
  • can't seem to
  • can't see the forest for the trees
  • can't stand
  • can't wait
  • beggars can't be choosers
  • if you can't beat them, join them
  • you can't take it with you
  • you can't win them all

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounhypocritical statement
Forms: canted, canting
Synonyms
deceit骗术,骗局,欺骗,骗人dishonesty不诚实行为,不诚实的行为,不诚实,坏事humbug胡说八道,胡说乱道,胡扯,谣言hypocrisy虚伪性,伪善,虚伪,虚伪行为insincerity虚伪性,假意,不真诚,虚伪pomposity浮夸风,浮夸,虚张声势,浮夸风气pretense幌子,伪装,矫饰,虚假pretentiousness装腔作势,自命不凡,伪装,矫情sanctimoniousness神圣性,圣洁性,神圣主义,圣洁sanctimony圣洁性,圣言,亵渎,圣洁show显示,展示,显示出,表明affected piety虔诚,虔诚的信徒,虔诚度,虔诚心hypocriticalness虚伪性,伪善,假正经,伪善性lip service口头服务,唇语服务,唇齿相依,唇齿服务pecksniffery啄木鸟,嗅觉,啄木鸟计划,啄食pharisaicalness讽刺性,厌恶性,犹太教,讽刺性的东西pious platitudes虔诚的陈词滥调,虔诚的老生常谈,虔诚的陈词sham holiness虚伪的圣洁,虚伪的神圣性,虚假的圣洁,虚伪的神圣
nounjargon
Forms: canted, canting
Synonyms
argot语汇,语录,词条,术语dialect方言,语,辩证法,辩证地看待diction措辞,用语,用词,措词idiom习惯用语,习语,熟语,习惯性用语language语言,语文,语言文字,语言的lingo行语,行话patois土语,土话,行语,行话patter淅淅沥沥,模式,啪啪啪,啪嗒啪嗒phraseology用语,用词slang俚语,俗语,俚俗语,俗话vernacular白话,白话文,白话语,土话vocabulary词汇表,词汇量,词汇,词汇学
verblean, slant
Forms: canted, canting
Synonyms
angle角度,观点,角度问题,视角bevel坡口,斜面,坡道,坡度careen护理,护理车,护理人员,护理员grade等级heel脚跟,脚后跟,脚跟部,脚踝incline倾斜,倾斜度,倾斜的,倾向性list列表,列表中,榜单,列表中的recline躺下,仰卧,躺着,倾斜rise崛起,上升,兴起,涨slope坡度,斜坡,山坡,倾斜度tilt倾斜,倾斜度,倾斜的,俯仰tip尖端,顶端,尖端的,尖端科技

Examples

  • Satirists occupy a perilous position—to skewer dogma and cant, and to antagonize the establishment while needing its protection.

  • And of course: “Bye Ryan Braun, you cheating piece of sh*t. CANT JEW YOUR WAY OUT OF IT THIS TIME.”

  • “Only those cant [sic] read chinese and not familiar with modern chinese history will believe the story,” wrote one.

  • On the periphery, tents pitched under overpasses cant against the dirty wind.

  • Bath's The Secret of Castle Cant is ranked No. 331,025 in book sales on Amazon's site.

  • But I cant stay here all day; Mrs. Towne is to take me to spend the day with the Gesners.

  • I didnt think much of that, but he said afterward, A man may do in an hour what he cant undo in a lifetime.

  • I cant let you increase your indebtedness, and his pudgy hand lifted the basket and put it on the shelf behind him.

  • A grain—requiring to be picked out with a pin and microscope—of truth, with a bushel of bunkum or cant.

  • Cant expect money before its due, I spose, said the old man, licking his thin lips.

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