Crossword-Solution: CANTING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Canting | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Cant |
| Canting | a. | Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone. |
| Canting | n. | The use of cant; hypocrisy. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| On a tilt | 5 answers |
| fulsome | 51 answers |
| hypocritical | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CANTING (5)
When we was passing the far corner of our tobacker field we heard the dog set up a long howl in there, and we went to the place and he was scratching the ground with all his might, and every now and then canting up his head sideways and fetching another howl.
Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded.
The dame wax'd hotter--"Speak out, lad, say, Must we fall in that canting caitiff's power? Shall we yield to a knave and a turncoat? Nay, I had liever leap from our topmost tower.
Your seats, ye canting, chuckle-headed fools! Down with ye, ye dogs, or I’ll fire among ye!” Astonishment and fear brought us back into our seats, and we sat staring blankly at our pastor and each other.
There are many ways of seeing landscape quite as good; and none more vivid, in spite of canting dilettantes, than from a railway train.
Quotes with CANTING (3)
These Moments Cascade Upon One Another" Here at shepherd's dusk, in a valley without echo, I listen for you. With a frayed longing, I hear your shadow voice whispering within me from far away. I grasp at what is left of this husky sun lying golden upon the upper meadows of lodge pole and bear grass. I gather the last remnants of the evening's breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten. And I see that behind a cloak of clouds, …
Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very …
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
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Appears in: USA TODAY.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2003).