In a sentence
Six example sentences with cant, each labelled with its topic.
Voters at the town hall grew tired of the cant about hard-working families and asked the candidates for numbers.
Politics
Her memo stripped out the cant about synergy and alignment, leaving four sentences that actually said what would change.
Business
Orwell mocked the cant of official language, phrases repeated so often that nobody stopped to ask what they meant.
Literature
The pitch was pure cant, disruption and synergy and scale, with no sentence that explained what the product did.
Startups
The catalog essay is mostly cant about interrogating space and liminal thresholds, and it never describes a single painting.
Art
Gym posters are full of cant about no pain and no gain, phrases repeated so often nobody hears them anymore.
Fitness
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- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
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