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

"Who has told you that canard?" said the priest, folding his arms and leaning back as far as the little calèche would allow.

From Ringfield A Novel by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison

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

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

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

As I happened to be the only prima donna to conform to the description, I was the unconscious victim of many canards.

From Geraldine Farrar The Story of an American Singer by Geraldine Farrar