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.
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It may also introduce acanard: as if only a few people built all the speculative houses.
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The argument that the lancet spread venereal disease was acanard.
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Gilman dismisses as a "greatcanard" the allegation that modernization theory was "totalitarian" or "just another cold war-driven anti-communist screed" (p. 13).
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The oldcanard"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.
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He started onecanard, and he has intervened at the end of the debate to get it going again.
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She repeated thecanardthat, in 1990, third-world countries paid more back to the rich west than they received in aid and loans.
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This issue of safety is acanardwhich should be nailed once and for all, and today is as good a time as any.
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It would suit his doctrinaire book to put across thatcanard.
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However, he cannot get away, once again, with thatcanard.
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Therefore, that gets anothercanardout of the way.
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Thatcanardshould be dismissed for what it is.
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We also had the usualcanardabout morale being bad.
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I hope that thatcanardwill not spread.
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It is acanardthat has been put to bed time and again.
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A furthercanardis that such teaching gives children ideas that they would not otherwise have and that it encourages them in promiscuity.
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