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单词 canard
释义
canardca‧nard /kæˈnɑːd $ kəˈnɑːrd/ noun [countable] written Word Origin
WORD ORIGINcanard
Origin:
1800-1900 French vendre des canards à moitié ‘to half-sell ducks, cheat’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • A canard of anti-Semitism is that there is a secret group of powerful Jews running the country.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • In other words, the whole idea of globalization was a canard.
  • It is hardly necessary to dignify that vile canard by saying there is not a mote of truth to it.
  • The initial findings lay to rest a few canards.
  • The Opposition raised the canard that some sort of register is required under the council tax.
a piece of news that is false and is told to people deliberately in order to harm someone
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