Sentence:  I am aware that the phrase "free inquiry" has become too much a <WSD>cant</WSD> phrase soiled by the handling of the ignorant and the reckless by those who fall into the mistake of supposing that religion has its root in the understanding and by those who can see just far enough to doubt and no further. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.