Canting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CANTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• talk hypocritically and sanctimoniously about something
• have or cause to have a slanting or oblique position; tilt
• (of a ship) swing round
NOUN:
• the act of canting
• 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
• The use of cant; hypocrisy.
ADJECTIVE:
• whining, pretending to piety
• Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to tilt or slant

Words related to CANTING

cant6 canted9 cantingly15 cants7

Words that contain CANTING

cantings11 scanting11 cantingly15 decanting13 incanting12 recanting12 descanting14 discanting14

How to use CANTING in a sentence

• Thus Daniel, ere to prophecy he grew, The perjured Presbyters did first subdue, And freed Susanna from the canting crew.
• I have no patience with cowardly canting talk about remorse.
• After sitting for some time in this hatching position, they all rise and sing a canting sort of hymn, during which the women keep time by elevating themselves on their toes.
• After all, my theory of life is the correct one, no matter what canting priests and ignorant philosophers may say to the contrary.
• Without canting, and yet without neglecting, religion, he has assembled all that a good and great man can gather together of moral wisdom clothed in consummate beauty.
• As you have seen, my Lord, a Canting Preacher Aiming to cheat his Audience, wanting matter, Sigh to seem Holy, till he thought on something.
• The term Canting Heraldry frequently occurs in ancient and modern authors.
• And the worst of the lot are among the canting ones.
• I always thought so, the canting bigot! Turn him out of doors without an explanation.
• The Cardinal spoke in a smooth whining manner, just like a canting Methodist preacher.
• The boy said his father would never allow the canting hypocrites of Christians to come into his house, and would never allow his child to go to Sunday-school.
• The most illiterate and presumptuous of the fanatical preachers crowded round her bed, and by the canting verbiage of delusion strove to revive the raptures of enthusiasm.
• I threw aside the arquebuse and proceeded to kill the canting mendicant.
• During the whole evening not a canting word nor a false tone had been uttered.
• Beware lest you be led blindfold to ruin by canting hypocrites.
• The canting crowd shrieked against the monstrous impiety of such notions, but their efforts to prove purity of motive were unavailing.
• At this time, the current was taking the ship on the larboard bow, and canting her round.

Similar words containing CANT without suffix ing

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