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.
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).
