Meaning

A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so..

Definitions by Sense

1. A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
2. (aviation) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
3. (aviation, by extension) A horizontal control and stabilization surface located in front of the main wing of an aircraft.
4. (transport, engineering, by extension) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.

Example Sentences

It’s a cinch, now that Spurling has cleared away a century’s worth of misapprehensions and canards.

There is a notion gaining credence that the free market breaks down national barriers, and that corporate globalization's ultimate destination is a hippie paradise where the heart is the only passport and we all live together happily inside a John Lennon song (Imagine there's no country...). This is a canard.

[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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Use canard when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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