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Example sentences for: cant
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By initiating his glossolalic cant with beth -element words ( feemalator, wamalama ) and continuing with palatal variations on their respective themes ( jasperator, gamanama ) the boy is apparently responding to the same primal urge that motivated the anonymous creators of our alphabet to begin their artificial series of sounds with aleph, beth, gimel , and daleth --and not with something like zis boom bah!
Also, of course, skeptical of cant and immune to flattery.
a really dumb liberal article in a magazine that's supposed to avoid reflexive anti-right politics, that sees itself as the puncturer of leftish cant?
As for Johnson, he believed it to be a cant term, derived...from an Irish word signifying a savage.
Any cant word or phrase becomes tiresome, which perhaps accounts in part for Burchfield's impatience with at the end of the day . (The word parse , rapidly deployed in press conferences and commentary after President Clinton used an eyebrow-raising tense to describe his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, went from inert silage to spent husk in a matter of hours.)