CANTING

Definition: CANTING

CANTING

Adjective

1. Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone.

Noun

1. The use of cant; hypocrisy.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Cant

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CANTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Affectation

Adjective: affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum; canting, insincere.

Falsehood

Artificial, contrived; canting; hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical; tartuffish; Machiavelian; double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing; Janus faced; smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued; plausible; mealy-mouthed; affected.

Impiety

Hypocritical; (false); canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much.

Crosswords: CANTING

Books

• Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (reference)

• The Canting Crew (reference)

• The Canting Crew: London's Criminal Underworld, 1550-1700 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "CANTING": Canting arms ♦ Canting heraldry ♦ canting table. Additional references.

Albanian

rrëzim (collapse, crash, decay, demolition, deposition, destruction, dethronement, eradiation, failure, fall, plough, plow, plump, prostration), i rrëzuar (canted, defeated). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منتئ (bulging). (various references)

Bulgarian 

който представлява ребус, лицемерен (double faced, false, hypocritical, jesuitic, jesuitical, pharisaic, simon-pure, smooth, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, smooth-faced). (various references)

Chinese 

倾斜 (inclined, inclining, lean, Leaned, leaning, Leant, Oblique, raked, raking, slanted, slanting, slope, sloped, sloping). (various references)

Danish

canting angle (canting angle), vippebaare (canting table, inclinable table, tilting gantry, tilting table), klemning af aksel (canting of the shaft), kipbart bord (canting table, inclinable table, tilting gantry, tilting table), haeldning af skinnen (canting of the rail, tilting over of the rail), ækvivalent middel hældningsvinkel (equivalent mean canting angle). (various references)

Dutch

verstelbaar bovenblad (canting table, inclinable table, tilting gantry, tilting table), schuin afstelbare tafel (canting table, inclinable table, tilting gantry, tilting table), klemmen van de as (canting of the shaft), hellingshoek (body pitch, canting angle, declivity of hill, gradient of slope, pitch), helling van de spoorstaaf (canting of the rail, tilting over of the rail), equivalente gemiddelde kantelhoek (equivalent mean canting angle). (various references)

Finnish

putoamiskaltevuuskulma (canting angle), kaltevuuskulman ekvivalentti keskiarvo (equivalent mean canting angle), kaltevuuskulma (angle of preparation, bevel angle, canting angle), kallistettava pöytä (canting table, inclinable table, tilting gantry, tilting table). (various references)

French

pleurard. (various references)

German

scheinheilig (hypocritical, innocent, sanctimonious), kippend (tilting, tipping, tipping over, toppling), heuchelnd (dissembling, feigning). (various references)

Greek 

κεκλιμένη τράπεζα εργασίας (canting table, inclinable table, tilting gantry, tilting table), κάμψη του άξονα (canting of the shaft), κλίση του άξονα (canting of the shaft), σφήνωμα του άξονα (canting of the shaft), γωνία κλήσης (canting angle), ισοδύναμη γωνία μέσης κλίσης (equivalent mean canting angle), περιστροφή σιδηροτροχιάς ως προς το διαμήκη άξονά της (canting of the rail, tilting over of the rail), ανατροπή σιδηροτροχιάς (canting of the rail, tilting over of the rail). (various references)

Hungarian

hajló (bent, leaning, stiff), dõlés (banking, roll). (various references)

Italian

tavola inclinabile (canting table, inclinable table, tilting gantry, tilting table), ribaltamento della rotaia (canting of the rail, tilting over of the rail), gantry inclinabile (canting table, inclinable table, tilting gantry, tilting table), deflessione dell'albero (canting of the shaft), angolo d'inclinazione (canting angle), angolo di deflessione media equivalente (equivalent mean canting angle). (various references)

Korean 

기우 (slanting, Tilting, Trending). (various references)

Manx

taagraph, lieh-scoidey, beeal-chrauee (hypocritical, lip-religious). (various references)

Pig Latin

antingcay.(various references)

Portuguese

lamuriante, inclinação (addiction, appetite, bent, bias, camber, climbdown, declination, declivity, descent, disposal, disposition, downhill, droop, falling, fellow feeling, fondness, inclination, lean, leaning, like, liking, list, lopsidedness, motion, partiality, penchant, proclivity, propensity, ramp, recession, sag, slant, stomach, tendency, tip, trend, vocation, will), hipocrisia (cant, grundyism, hypocrisy, sanctimony), hipócrita (cant, dissembler, double, double-dealer, double-faced, hypocrite, hypocritical, insincere, pecksniffian, prudish, sanctimonious, self-righteous, two-faced, two-tongued), falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, counterfeit, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, dummy, erroneous, faked, false, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, snide, so-called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two-faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong), desvio (break, crossroad, departure, deviousness, digression, diversion, leakage, meander, misapplication, roundabout, set, sidetrack, switch, turn, turnabout, turning, veering). (various references)

Romanian

ticãlos (a bad egg, base, cad, cur, dark, dirty, felon, foul, heel, hound, impious, kite, knave, knavish, knavishly, low-minded, mean, meanly, miscreant, paltry, perverse, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, rascally, recreant, reprobate, ruffian, scab, scabby, scamp, scoundrel, scurvy, serpentine, shabby, skunk, sneak, sneaking, vile, villain, villainous, wretch, wretched), ipocrit (cant, canter, dissembler, double-dealer, double-dealing-faced, fairfaced, false, feigner, histrionic, hollow, hypocrite, hypocritical, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pietist, squeamish, Tartuffe). (various references)

Russian 

лицемерный (disingenuous, double dealing, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, insincere, left handed, pretended, sanctimonious, smoothfaced, smooth-faced). (various references)

Spanish

uso de palabrotas, usado de palabrotas, hipócrita (ambidexter, double dealing, double faced, double-handed, double-hearted, hypocrite, hypocritical, lip, two faced). (various references)

Swedish

hycklande (double faced, feigningly, hypocritical, insincere, janus-faced, two faced). (various references)

Ukrainian

скошений (bevelled, sloping, squint), кантування, лицемірний (cant, double dealing, double-tongued, histrionic, hypocrite, hypocritical, jesuit, left handed, self-righteous, specious), продаж з аукціону (cant), похилий (askew, aslope, declining, downhill, inclined, oblique, prone, sidelong, slanting, sloping), перекидання (capsize, flip flap, move, movement, somersault, tumble, turnover, upset), перевертання (wamble). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "CANTING": decanting, descanting, discanting, incanting, recanting, scanting. (additional references)

Misspellings

"CANTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anting, banteng, Bantung, caatinga, Candonga, cantan, canti, cantin, Cantine, Cantini, cantino, capting, Carntine, catting, caunting, cepting, contin, conting, continge, cunting, Dantzig, Kuangtung, Kuntang, nantong, qangtang, santing. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: acting, anting, caning, incant, tannic.

-2 letters: acing, actin, antic, giant.

-3 letters: agin, anti, cain, cant, gain, gait, gnat, tain, tang, ting.

-4 letters: act, ain, ait, ani, ant, can, cat, cig, gan, gat, gin, git, inn, nag, nan, nit, tag, tan, tic, tin.

-5 letters: ag, ai, an, at, in, it, na, ta, ti.

+1 letter: chanting, enacting, scanting, trancing.

+2 letters: accenting, anticking, anticling, antigenic, cantering, cantoning, cartoning, chaunting, cognation, cognizant, contagion, decanting, incanting, incognita, nictating, nonacting, recanting, scantling, snatching, stanching, uncoating, uncrating, untacking.

+3 letters: accounting, anteceding, anticaking, auctioning, canulating, captaining, captioning, cartooning, catenating, catnapping, cautioning, chastening, coenacting, cognations, conflating, congenital, contacting, contagions, containing, coronating, curtaining, descanting, discanting, distancing, enchanting, entrancing, gentamicin, incogitant, incognitas, incubating, indicating, infracting, instancing, intragenic, invocating, nucleating, outdancing, pangenetic, reenacting, scantlings, sonicating, staunching, tangencies, transgenic, truncating, uncreating, unlatching, unstacking, unteaching.