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‘One feels that there is something healthy in his instinctive ability to cut through cant, including the ‘politically correct’ variety.’.‘Yet the forthright honesty and steely lucidity of his voice in these interviews, his impatience with cant and pious waffle, also bear witness to the virtues of that rationality.’.‘Any cant about representing farming is hollow and hypocritical.’.‘They will be exposed for things called hypocrisy and cant, and they will not get away with it.’.‘The common factor among the marchers was a rejection of cant, lies and hypocrisy.’.‘No matter how tightly you wrap yourself in the flag the stench of untramelled cant and hypocrisy always emerges.’.

‘He sees it as the paper's duty to expose cant and hypocrisy,’ said the source.’.

‘Their hypocrisy, their cant and their lies are nailed to the wall and flayed with such devastating honesty and accuracy that one wonders how anyone could ever dare to be associated with their names again.’.

‘Its satirical swipes at hypocrisy and cant make it a topical work amid the political spin of today.’.

‘That embarrassment reminds you that Le Carré's Cold War-era novels were so good precisely because they were devoid of cant and moral sloganeering.’.

‘Maybe it is time to reject cant and hypocrisy, shed this sham of political correctness.’.‘Most orthodox historians think that comments like these are mere hypocritical cant.’.‘It annoyed Flaubert mightily that purveyors of political cant should be greeted with more ballyhoo than gifted poets.’.‘For cant, humbug and moral spinelessness, this took some beating.’.