canard
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- n a deliberately misleading fabrication
- Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, to answer personally a canard, emanating from Rome, that a "certain American Negro" was plotting to kill the Emperor.
- And when Palin floated the "death panel" canard, the number of prominent Republicans who rose up to call her out could be counted on one hand.
- When he calls the Bradley effect "a pernicious canard," Tarrance speaks with some authorityhe was the pollster for Bradley's opponent, George Deukmejian.