canard

Bill Gates jumps off a bandwagon that existed in the first place only as a complete and utter canard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

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

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

The Kremlin meanwhile described the allegation as "just another canard".

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2023

"Unfortunately that is only a canard invented by my dearest enemies."

From The Green Carnation by Robert Smythe Hichens

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

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

I’d rather see Facebook make mistakes in pursuit of a better one than cling to the old canards about algorithmic neutrality.

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2018

Unfortunately, this Graybridge slander is one of the very lamest of canards.

From The Doctor's Wife by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon