canard
noun
a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor.
canards
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pluralof canard.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Let’s examine some of the other common canards about gun violence and gun laws, and start thinking about how to move the needle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2022
There are many canards about that generation, but the most persistent is that the boomers were central to the social and cultural events of the nineteen-sixties.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 18, 2019
Well me too, I'm guilty of one of the great maybe canards of the modern Thanksgiving age which is this notion that you should brine the bird.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2018
In fact, she regards Darwin’s work as “impressive,” and makes no argument for a young Earth, the fixity of species or any of the other usual creationist canards.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 17, 2018
Performances of your works in the French or Italian language must for the present be looked upon as pia desideria, or else as newspaper canards.
From Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2 by Francis Hueffer
