canard

In another song about the absurd reasons why they have been deemed unfit for society, the girls drag out that old canard: “Sane in an insane world.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

This year, let’s agree to dispel the canard that “summer reading” or “beach books” are something frivolous or less important than the serious literature celebrated in austere outlets like the London Review of Books.

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024

This is another quacking canard from the Simpson duck pond.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2023

That movement swept the United States and Britain in the 1980s and early '90s on account of a cultural myth and canard that child-sacrificing Satanic cults were at work.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023

"A canard of the sort has reached my ears," he remarked.

From A Maker of History by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

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

The 'points,' the 'puffs,' the alarms and the canards, put out expressly to deceive and mislead, find a wide circulation through these mediums, with an ease which admits of no possible justification.

From Successful Stock Speculation by Butler, John James