Crossword-Solution: CANARD 6 letters, 55 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Canard n. An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated
sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers
to hoax the public.

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CANARD anagram ARCAND

We have 55 clues for the answer “CANARD”

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Extravagant or false report 1 answer
Absurd, exaggerated story. 1 answer
Base rumor. 1 answer
Baseless idea 1 answer
Baseless story 1 answer
Derogatory story 1 answer
Dinner duck 1 answer
Dish that you shouldn't swallow 1 answer
Duck, to a French chef 1 answer
Untrue story 1 answer
Fabricated report 1 answer
False news 1 answer
False story or rumor. 1 answer
False, malicious report 1 answer
Groundless rumor 1 answer
Joker put round a new rumour 1 answer
Machiavellian ploy 1 answer
Malicious fabrication 1 answer
Untrue rumor 1 answer
Unfounded rumor 1 answer
Misleading story 1 answer
Slanderous rumor. 1 answer
NEWSPAPER hoax 1 answer
FRENCH duck 2 answers
Malicious rumor 2 answers
Unfounded report 2 answers
False rumor 2 answers
False report 2 answers
Scandalous story 2 answers
Unfounded rumour 2 answers
Nasty rumor 2 answers
False statement 3 answers
Fake news! 5 answers
FALSE story 6 answers
Don't believe it 7 answers
Baseless rumor 10 answers
A FALSE STATEMENT THAT IS CONSIDERED TO INDICATE TIMIDITY OR FEAR 10 answers
A SQUELCHED RUMOR 10 answers
AS A STORY BELIEVE 10 answers
ABSURD, FALSE, OR DISTORTED REPRESENTATION OF SOMETHING 11 answers
CIRCULATE A RUMOR 11 answers
ABSURD ___ SINGULAR 11 answers
rumour 20 answers
Hearsay 21 answers
falsity 26 answers
tall tale 30 answers
cock and bull story 38 answers
Tale 45 answers
Fabrication 48 answers
Fib 49 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with CANARD (5)

Very probably the whole story is but a newspaper _canard_, devised by the proprietors of some rival gaming establishment, who would have been delighted to see the fashionable Hombourg under a cloud.
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Andrew Steinmetz 1996
Ainsi vous gagnez toutes ces connaisances à la fois, qui s’attachent à votre esprit comme l’eau adhére aux plumes d’un canard.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 2013
Canard--Literally “duck.” The name which was given to a type of aeroplane of which the longitudinal stabilizing surface (empennage) was mounted in front of the main lifting surface.
The Aeroplane Speaks H. Barber 1997
The paper was secretly bought up by Corentin, and the late opposition sheet became a “canard” sold on Sundays in the wine-shops and concocted in the dens of the police.
The Lesser Bourgeoisie Honore de Balzac 1999
His fingers traveled mechanically over the worn keys of his instrument; he did not trouble himself over a false note now and again (a _canard_, in the language of the orchestra), neither did the dancers, nor, for that matter, did my old Italian's acolytes; for I had made up my mind that he must be Italian, and an Italian he was.
Facino Cane Honore de Balzac 1999

Quotes with CANARD (3)

Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed by Rosa Luxemburg, writing from prison in 1917 to her anguished friend Mathilde Wurm: An inordinate proportion of the Marxists I have known would probably have formulated their own views in much the same way. It was almost a point of honor not to engage in 'thinking with the blood,' to borrow a notable phrase from D.H. Lawrence, and to immers…
Christopher Hitchens Hitch-22: A Memoir
We have the money. We’ve just made choices about how to spend it. Over the years, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have restricted housing aid to the poor but expanded it to the affluent in the form of tax benefits for homeowners. 57 Today, housing-related tax expenditures far outpace those for housing assistance. In 2008, the year Arleen was evicted from Thirteenth Street, federal expenditures for direct housing assistance totaled less than $40.2 billion, but homeowner t…
Matthew Desmond Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on the affluent - at least when it comes to housing - we should own up to that decision and stop repeating the canard about this rich country being unable to afford more.
Matthew Desmond
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 51 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).