(有关道德或宗教的)虚伪言辞,伪善的话,空话 If you refer to moral or religious statements as cant, you are criticizing them because you think the person making them does not really believe what they are saying. (有关道德或宗教的)虚伪言辞,伪善的话,空话
...politicians holding forth with their usual hypocritical cant.