cants
Angles or jargons
Cants is the plural of cant, covering several distinct words.
Religious or political cant is insincere, formulaic language: the usual cants about family values.
Cant also means the specialized jargon of a group, especially criminals or beggars.
Separately, cants refers to tilted positions or slanted surfaces: the cants of the ship's deck.
To cant is to tilt or speak hypocritically.
Angular deviation from level
- inclineAngled rising surface
- angleGeometric measure of rotation
- leanLacking fat; incline
- bevelSloped edge or cut
pitch · slope · gradient · sloping · angling · tilting · leaning · listing
Feigned moral superiority
- pietySincere religious devotion
- insincerityLack of genuine feeling
- preachingDelivering moral discourse
- moralizingDelivering ethical lectures
platitudes · lip-service · holier-than-thou · pretense · affectation · sham · posturing · phoniness
tilt
Angular deviation from level
bevel · pitch · slope · gradient · sloping · angling · tilting · leaning · listing · banking
sanctimony
Feigned moral superiority
- pietySincere religious devotion
- insincerityLack of genuine feeling
- preachingDelivering moral discourse
moralizing · platitudes · lip-service · holier-than-thou · pretense · affectation · sham · posturing · phoniness · self-righteousness
argot
Group-specific coded speech
- slangInformal in-group vocabulary
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- patoisRegional informal speech
dialect · lingo · shoptalk · buzzwords · colloquialism · pidgin · creole · parlance · patter · doublespeak
bevel
Sloped edge or cut
joinery · woodworking · timber · rafters · joists · ribs · framework · planks · dovetail · mortise
cantshonesties
States of being truthful
straight talk · truthfulness · forthrightness · earnestness · directness
cantsplain speech
Unembellished verbal expression
common parlance · vernacular · accessible language · layman's terms · plain language
- thieves' cantCoded criminal vocabulary
- cant hookLog-rolling lever tool
canter, recant, cant, canted, cantata, canters, canticle, canting, cantinas