Cant is valid Scrabble Word

Is cant a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is cant valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

4 letters word
6 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for CANT in dictionary:

VERB:

to tilt or slant
talk hypocritically and sanctimoniously about something
have or cause to have a slanting or oblique position; tilt
(of a ship) swing round
To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.
To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone.
To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.

to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.
heel over
use cant

NOUN:

hypocritical and sanctimonious talk, typically of a moral, religious, or political nature
language specific to a particular group or profession and regarded with disparagement
denoting a phrase or catchword temporarily current or in fashion
a slope or tilt
a wedge-shaped block of wood, especially one remaining after the better-quality pieces have been cut off
insincere talk
A corner; angle; niche.
An outer or external angle.
An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.
A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant.
A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation.
The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.
Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.
A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction.
stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
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
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
insincere talk about religion or morals
two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees

ADJECTIVE:

affectedly moral or religious
Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
oblique

Words related to CANT

canted9 canter8 cantest9 cantic10 canting10 cantingly15 cantings11 cants7 kant8

How to use CANT in a sentence

The particular portions of Whitefriars forming Alsatia were Ram-Alley, Mitre Court, and a lane called in the local cant Lombard Street.
In regard to his private life, aside from cant and dissimulation, there is not much to condemn, and there is much to praise.
It is miserable hypocrisy and cant to talk of a revolutionary necessity for violating the first principles of human society.
They say as heâ€™s gone to heaven, And shook off all worldly cares But I canâ€™t sight Bill in a halo Set up on three blinded hairs.
When any who are not of the Law are let in, the Person who introduces him, says, he is a very honest Gentleman, and he is taken in, as their Cant is, to pay Costs.
All they say is mere cant, and is intended for the European market, which they now supply as liberally with lies as once they did with cotton.
And what he can see to be afraid of in you I canâ€™t think.
I can see now that he meant it for goodbye! Well, I canâ€™t say Iâ€™m surprised.
There is a great deal of cant in this matter in Great Britain.
Lucy had been educated superior to cant and false morals.

But even then, a constructive cant is better than a destructive one.
Oh dear, I canâ€™t move a step for fear! This ends me! Masterâ€™s orders are done for, and Sosia, too.
I will, so that you canâ€™t keep watching me whatever I do.
But I am all amost blind and cant Do much so if you would spear me some Sir I would Be very thankful to you Sir.
For the universe is a single jewel, and while it is a natural cant to talk of a jewel as peerless and priceless, of this jewel it is literally true.
Let me say also that I admire the good-sense and absence of flattery and cant which your letter displayed.
Cant, in spite of their exhaustion, assumed her reign.
By agreement, he prolonged his doleful cant till intelligence arrived, that the fatal blow was struck.
Grandmother wants to know if you canâ€™t go to the term of school that begins next week over at the sod schoolhouse.
I canâ€™t help it if he hangs around, and I canâ€™t order him off.
I canâ€™t wait till my little girlâ€™s old enough to tell her about all the things we used to do.
I canâ€™t see how my Anton looks any older than the day I married him.
He did not talk in pious cant, he did not display his piety, and he never addressed a sinner down an inclined plane.
He disliked cant and hard ways of judging character.
You canâ€™t imagine, my dear fellow, the sort of man he is.
Withal I like Mohammed for his total freedom from cant.

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