Canard – Hoax; A deliberately false report or rumor

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Pronounced as Kuh + Naard (emphasized) {Listen to it here}

It comes from French and means a duck.

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Situational Uses / Sentences:

• The Glasgow newspaper found it proper to repeat this canard, without citing its source, as an expression of faith in its accuracy.
• We can no longer hide behind the simplistic canard that Israel is the aggressor and everyone else is the victim.

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