Word: canting
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...Nineteenth century thieves' cant: a blackjack...
...release of a letter he had written to Ike last August: "Since I have known you as a major, I have grown to respect and admire your character, ability, gentleness but firmness and, above all, the high purposes that have motivated you in all circumstances. Your abhorrence of cant, hypocrisy, intolerance in all fields of human relations have brought affection with respect and admiration...
...fact, for the non-Communist world, the most striking quality in Stalin's statement was the absence of the customary cant about capitalist "encirclement of the Soviet Union" and the imminent plans of U.S. "warmongers." Instead, Stalin seemed to pooh-pooh the danger of an attack on Russia, and said that the real threat of war arises from the imperialistic rivalries between capitalist countries for foreign markets. He chided his subordinates, faithfully clinging to yesterday's party line, for forgetting their lessons that "wars between capitalist countries [are] inevitable." Comrades who think that ideological rivalry between the Communist...
...proceeds of that fortune has been progressively limited, it has been an important factor in the development, not only of his truly remarkable musical gifts, but also of all the extravagance, exuberance and effervescence of a rich and sensitive but irrepressible and boisterous nature. He is utterly free from cant and convention, and his fortunate combination of natural and material endowments has enabled him to become one of the most brilliant and certainly the most uninhibited public figure in the England of his time...
...through all the violence, contradiction and distortion of his denunciations, his personal credo rings clear: "Improve your standards; clean out the muck; cut out the cant!" And when he says, for once in simple seriousness, that "good seed is seldom sown in vain," musicians, the world over, can only wish him better soil and an even bigger sweep...