canardnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkæn.ɑːd/us/kəˈnɑːrd/literarya false report or piece of information that is intended to deceive people
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- charade
- cobbler
- concoct
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- hypocrisy
- make sth up
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- propaganda
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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Examples from literature
- I don't think people realize how careful we are on financial matters—they seem to think that a popular paper will print any sort of canard offhand.
- It was even said that the Germans were marching on Brussels, but this was contradicted afterwards as a sensational canard.
- The report that she was injured in the fire by which her stable was burned, proves to be a canard.
- The story of an armed band surrounding the bank had been a canard.
- Where did this ridiculous canard originate? demanded a pompous and elderly gentleman as he tugged at his closely cropped mustache with a nervousness belying his scepticism.