Canard

Definitions

1. A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
2. A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
3. A horizontal control and stabilization surface located in front of the main wing of an aircraft.
   broadly
4. Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.
   broadly

Equivalents

Examples

“It’s a cinch, now that Spurling has cleared away a century’s worth of misapprehensions and canards.”

“There is a notion gaining credence that the free market breaks down national barriers, and that corporate globalization's ultimate destination is a hippie paradise where the heart is the only passport and we all live⟳ together happily inside a John Lennon song (Imagine⟳ there's no country...). This is a canard.”

“[W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.”

“It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.”

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