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Example sentences for: cant

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Also, of course, skeptical of cant and immune to flattery.
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.)
As for Johnson, he believed it to be a cant term, derived...from an Irish word signifying a savage.
The film is so free of cant that it's positively cleansing: It leaves you both cleareyed and high.
A letter to his editor at Grove Press: "I cant possibly go on as a responsible prose artist and also as a believer in the impulses of my own heart and in the beauty of pure spontaneous language if I let editors take my sentences, which are my phrases that I separate by dashes when I 'draw a breath,' each of which pours out to the tune of the whole story its own rhythmic yawp of expostulation, & riddle them with commas, cut them in half, in threes, in fours, ruining the swing ...