Words similar to canard

Example sentences for: canard

How can you use “canard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

That old canard that "confession is good for the soul" usually only seems to work for the person confessing.
The (mis)information (pp. 11, 183) that papyrus was costly is an undying canard.
But when it comes to taking on unions, that cliché is a canard.
The lost metaphor in canard is a duck, from a French expression vendre un canard á moitié `to half-sell a duck.
As for the character issue, it seems to me to be a convenient canard to distract attention from the fact that the candidates' real differences run the gamut from A to.