Definitions
a deliberately misleading fabrication
Word origin
Borrowed from French canard (“duck, hoax”).
Used in a sentence
“It’s a cinch, now that Spurling has cleared away a century’s worth of misapprehensions and canards.”
“[W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.”
“It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“False rumor”6 letters
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