cant
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Synonyms for cant
hypocrisy
Synonyms
- hypocrisy
- pretence
- lip service
- humbug
- insincerity
- pretentiousness
- sanctimoniousness
- pious platitudes
- affected piety
- sham holiness
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Synonyms for cant
deviation from a particular direction
to depart or cause to depart from true vertical or horizontal
a variety of a language that differs from the standard form
specialized expressions indigenous to a particular field, subject, trade, or subculture
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Synonyms for cant
stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
Synonyms
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a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
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- bite
- swiz
- heist
- rip-off
- shakedown
- power trip
- nookie
- nooky
- piece of tail
- roll in the hay
- screwing
- screw
- dekko
- square-bashing
- caff
- deck
- gat
- rod
- Mickey Finn
- nick
- dreck
- schlock
- shlock
- cert
- legs
- soup-strainer
- toothbrush
- bunghole
- bay window
- potbelly
- tummy
- corporation
- pot
- niff
- pong
- street name
- corker
- hooey
- poppycock
- stuff and nonsense
- stuff
- baloney
- bilgewater
- boloney
- bosh
- drool
- humbug
- tommyrot
- tosh
- twaddle
- taradiddle
- tarradiddle
- codswallop
- folderol
- trumpery
- wish-wash
- applesauce
- tripe
- rubbish
- trash
- skin flick
- dibs
- non-standard speech
- rhyming slang
- bunfight
- bun-fight
- burnup
- nosh-up
- hood
- 'hood
- airhead
- babe
- sister
- baby
- bad egg
- boffin
- good egg
- guvnor
- old man
- out-and-outer
- schlockmeister
- shlockmeister
- squeeze
- suit
- tripper
- juice
- big bucks
- big money
- megabucks
- pile
- bundle
- key
- skinful
- the trots
- heebie-jeebies
- jitters
- screaming meemies
- give
- buy it
- pip out
- feel
- hoof
- chuck
- ditch
- bunk off
- play hooky
- clean
- plumb
- plum
- drop-dead
insincere talk about religion or morals
Synonyms
two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
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