| 词汇 | canard |
| 释义 | canard noun[ C ] literaryuk /ˈkæn.ɑːd/ us /kəˈnɑːrd/ a false report or piece of information that is intended to deceive people虚假新闻;谎报;假消息 Lies, lying & hypocrisy a pack of liesidiom artifice bad faith black is whiteidiom cakeism falsification feed someone a lineidiom fib fiction flimflam lie mythologize perjure perjury polygraph someone can talk!idiom stretch the truthidiom weasel words white lie whopper You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Information and messages I don't think people realize how careful we are on financial matters—they seem to think that a popular paper will print any sort of canard offhand. It was even said that the Germans were marching on Brussels, but this was contradicted afterwards as a sensational canard. The report that she was injured in the fire by which her stable was burned, proves to be a canard. The story of an armed band surrounding the bank had been a canard. Where did this ridiculous canard originate? demanded a pompous and elderly gentleman as he tugged at his closely cropped mustache with a nervousness belying his scepticism. Examples of canardcanard It may also introduce a canard: as if only a few people built all the speculative houses. The argument that the lancet spread venereal disease was a canard. Gilman dismisses as a "great canard" the allegation that modernization theory was "totalitarian" or "just another cold war-driven anti-communist screed" (p. 13). The old canard "the operation was a success but the patient died" points to the danger of separating the mere performance of an act from its real purpose. He started one canard, and he has intervened at the end of the debate to get it going again. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She repeated the canard that, in 1990, third-world countries paid more back to the rich west than they received in aid and loans. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This issue of safety is a canard which should be nailed once and for all, and today is as good a time as any. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would suit his doctrinaire book to put across that canard. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, he cannot get away, once again, with that canard. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, that gets another canard out of the way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That canard should be dismissed for what it is. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We also had the usual canard about morale being bad. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that that canard will not spread. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a canard that has been put to bed time and again. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A further canard is that such teaching gives children ideas that they would not otherwise have and that it encourages them in promiscuity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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