Definitions for canting

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canting cant·ing

Spelling: [kan-ting]

IPA: /ˈkæn tɪŋ/

Canting is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in canting (acginnt).

Definitions for canting

noun

1. insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.
2. the private language of the underworld.
3. the phraseology peculiar to a particular class, party, profession, etc.:
4. whining or singsong speech, especially of beggars.
5. a salient angle.
6. a sudden movement that tilts or overturns a thing.
7. a slanting or tilted position.
8. an oblique line or surface, as one formed by cutting off the corner of a square of cube.
9. an oblique or slanting face of anything.
10. Civil Engineering. bank1 (def 6).
11. a sudden pitch or toss.
12. Also called flitch. a partly trimmed log.

adjective

1. affectedly or hypocritically pious or righteous:
2. oblique or slanting.

verb (used with object)

1. to bevel; form an oblique surface upon.
2. to put in an oblique position; tilt; tip.
3. to throw with a sudden jerk.

verb (used without object)

1. to talk hypocritically.
2. to speak in the whining or singsong tone of a beggar; beg.
3. to take or have an inclined position; tilt; turn.

Origin of canting

First recorded in 1560-70; cant¹ + -ing²

Examples for canting

She stretched her little figure, canting her head still more.

The uncle was a damn rebellious, canting, planting Scotchman.

Some canting hypocrites are whining for us to civilize the Indians.

She had heard so much of the canting philosophy of the grapeless fox.

He threw the helmet with a clatter on to the table as if it had been the knave's canting head.

The sanctity of human life is the canting cry of the falsely sentimental.

His tongue is very voluble, which, with canting, proves him a linguist.

This bride was a canting hypocrite of sixty-three, covetous, and a termagant.

To bed with you, you canting hypocrite; your wound makes you light-headed.

canting crew, impostors who go about preaching, methodists, &c.