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Cant 1100 Words You Need Week 40 Day 2

Cant 1100 Words You Need Week 40 Day 2 Cant 1100 Words You Need Week 40 Day 2 /kænt/ (noun) glib talk, hypocritical talk, clichéd talk, facile talk, sanctimonious talk, clichés, platitudes, triteness, insincerity, false piety, lip service, commonplaces, sanctimony, insincere talk, pietism, hypocrisy, jargon, special language, rhetoric or vocabulary of a particular group or vocation, idiom, speech, terminology, slang, vernacular Thus, though I think there is very little downright hypocrisy in the world, I do think there is a great deal of cant -- "cant religious, cant political, cant literary," etc., as Lord Byron said. Though few people have ...

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