canard

His speech should put another canard to rest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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

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

Mr. Roe's progress may be followed in the picture, from his early "canard" biplane, through various triplanes, with 35 J.A.P. and 35 h.p.

From The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition by H. (Horatio) Barber

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

Whenever a tragedy occurs in a rural district all kinds of absurd canards are started.

From The Seven Secrets by William Le Queux