canting

Were you tarred with the same brush as those canting snobs who doomed a poor old man to a living death?

At every jump too, Hands appeared still more to sink into himself and settle down upon the deck, his feet sliding ever the farther out, and the whole body canting towards the stern, so that his face became, little by little, hid from me; and at last I could see nothing beyond his ear and the frayed ringlet of one whisker.

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.

I incline as little to the sickly feeling which makes every canting lie or maudlin speech of a notorious criminal a subject of newspaper report and general sympathy, as I do to those good old customs of the good old times which made England, even so recently as in the reign of the Third King George, in respect of her criminal code and her prison regulations, one of the most bloody-minded and barbarous countries on the earth.

Canting the bow isn't a problem as long as it's done in exactly the same manner and degree for every shot.

As a measure in the process of eliminating--or at least reducing--the effects of accuracy-robbing scope canting, we can install a scope leveling device designed for the purpose.