canard

The word “canard” has 2 syllables: ca-nard

It's pronounced as /kəˈnɑːrd/


What is synonym and antonym for canard?

In the thesaurus, “canard” has 31 synonyms and 1 antonym.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for canard along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for canard

Antonyms for canard

  • truth

Meanings of canard

  • noun
    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. Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.

Example Sentences

  • The rumor about the company's bankruptcy turned out to be a complete canard.
  • He spread a canard to discredit his opponent during the election.
  • The story about the haunted house was just an old canard that people still believed.
  • The journalist was accused of publishing a canard without verifying the facts.
  • The idea that the government is planning to raise taxes is a canard designed to create fear.

On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to canard, such as: defamation, dirt, dirty laundry, dirty linen, exaggeration, fable, fabrication.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

fables

half-truth

fairy tales

talebearing

  • account
  • articulate
  • babble
  • back-fence talk
  • blabby
  • blather
  • blether
  • buzz
  • calumny
  • canard
  • chatter
  • chatty
  • chitchat
  • chronicle
  • clothesline
  • communicative
  • conversation
  • conversational
  • cry
  • defamation
  • demonstrative
  • dirt
  • dirty laundry
  • dirty linen
  • dirty wash
  • dishing
  • earful
  • effusive
  • expansive
  • extraverted
  • extroverted
  • fable
  • fabrication
  • fairy tale
  • falsehood
  • falsity
  • fib
  • fluent
  • free-spoken
  • gabby
  • garrulous
  • glib
  • gossip
  • gossipry
  • gossipy
  • grapevine
  • gregarious
  • gushing
  • hearsay
  • idle talk
  • injury
  • libel
  • lie
  • long-winded
  • loquacious
  • malicious talk
  • meddling
  • mendacity
  • motormouthed
  • mouthy
  • news
  • outgoing
  • outspoken
  • prate
  • prattle
  • prattling
  • prevarication
  • prolix
  • rambling
  • repeating
  • report
  • rumor
  • scandal
  • scuttlebutt
  • slander
  • small talk
  • sociable
  • story
  • tale
  • tale-telling
  • taletelling
  • talk
  • talkative
  • talky
  • tattle
  • tattling
  • tittle-tattle
  • unreserved
  • untruth
  • verbose
  • vocal
  • voluble
  • well-spoken
  • whisper
  • whispering campaign
  • whopper
  • windy
  • wire
  • word
  • wordy

deceptiveness

  • aberration
  • ambiguity
  • amphiboly
  • apparition
  • artfulness
  • artifice
  • beguilement
  • betrayal
  • bias
  • blarney
  • blunder
  • cageyness
  • caginess
  • canard
  • casuistry
  • cavil
  • cheat
  • cheating
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • circumvention
  • coloring
  • con
  • cop out
  • cover
  • cover-up
  • covertness
  • cozenage
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • crookedness
  • crookery
  • cunning
  • cunningness
  • daydream
  • deceit
  • deceitfulness
  • deception
  • defraudation
  • delusion
  • deviation
  • deviousness
  • dishonesty
  • disinformation
  • disingenuousness
  • dissembling
  • dissimulation
  • distortion
  • double entendre
  • double meaning
  • double talk
  • double-dealing
  • doubtfulness
  • dream
  • dupery
  • duplicity
  • eidolon
  • elusion
  • equivocality
  • equivocation
  • equivoque
  • erratum
  • erroneousness
  • error
  • euphemism
  • evasion
  • faithlessness
  • fake
  • fakery
  • fallacy
  • false impression
  • falsehood
  • falsity
  • fancy
  • fantasy
  • faultiness
  • fib
  • fibbing
  • figment
  • flaw
  • flimflam
  • foxiness
  • fraud
  • fraudulence
  • furtiveness
  • ghost
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • hallucination
  • hanky-panky
  • head trip
  • hedge
  • hedging
  • heresy
  • hokum
  • hypocrisy
  • ignis fatuus
  • illogicality
  • illusion
  • imposition
  • inaccuracy
  • inconsistency
  • inexactness
  • infidelity
  • insincerity
  • invalidity
  • jugglery
  • juggling
  • lapse
  • legerdemain
  • lie
  • line
  • lying
  • mendacity
  • mirage
  • misapprehension
  • miscalculation
  • misconstrual
  • misinterpretation
  • misrepresentation
  • mistake
  • mountebankery
  • non sequitur
  • notion
  • obliquity
  • oiliness
  • optical illusion
  • oversight
  • oversubtleness
  • paradox
  • perfidiousness
  • perfidy
  • perversion
  • phantasm
  • phantom
  • pipe dream
  • preconception
  • prejudice
  • pretense
  • prevarication
  • quibbling
  • quibbling routine
  • quirk
  • runaround
  • sanctimoniousness
  • secrecy
  • self-deception
  • shade
  • shadiness
  • sham
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • shuffle
  • shuffling
  • skulduggery
  • skullduggery
  • slickness
  • slipperiness
  • slyness
  • smoothness
  • sneakiness
  • solecism
  • song
  • song and dance
  • sophism
  • sophistry
  • speciousness
  • spuriousness
  • stall
  • stealthiness
  • stonewall
  • story
  • subterfuge
  • swindling
  • tale
  • tergiversation
  • treacherousness
  • treachery
  • treason
  • trick
  • trickery
  • trickiness
  • trip
  • trumpery
  • two-facedness
  • uncandidness
  • underhandedness
  • unfaithfulness
  • unreality
  • unscrupulousness
  • untruth
  • vision
  • waffle
  • weasel word
  • wile
  • wiliness

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