CANARD Synonyms
There are 3 hypernyms of the word canard. (close relations)
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| hoax | nounn | |||||
noun • something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage verb • subject to a playful hoax or joke | ||||||
| deceit | nounn | |||||
noun • the quality of being fraudulent • a misleading falsehood • the act of deceiving | ||||||
| deception | nounn | |||||
noun • a misleading falsehood • the act of deceiving • an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | ||||||
| fable | nounn | |||||
noun • a deliberately false or improbable account • a short moral story (often with animal characters) • a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events | ||||||
| fabrication | nounn | |||||
noun • a deliberately false or improbable account • writing in a fictional form • the act of making something (a product) from raw materials • the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) • the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | ||||||
| falsehood | nounn | |||||
noun • a false statement • the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting | ||||||
| falsity | nounn | |||||
noun • the state of being false or untrue • a false statement | ||||||
| fib | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • a trivial lie verb • tell a relatively insignificant lie | ||||||
| fiction | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||
noun • a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact • a deliberately false or improbable account | ||||||
| lie | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth • Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968) • position or manner in which something is situated verb • be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position • be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position • originate (in) • be and remain in a particular state or condition • tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive • have a place in relation to something else • assume a reclining position | ||||||
| myth | nounn | |||||
noun • a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people | ||||||
| pretense | nounn | |||||
noun • the act of giving a false appearance • pretending with intention to deceive • imaginative intellectual play • a false or unsupportable quality • an artful or simulated semblance | ||||||
| rumor | nounn | |||||
noun • gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth verb • tell or spread rumors | ||||||
| sham | nounn | |||||
noun • something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be • a person who makes deceitful pretenses adjective satellite • adopted in order to deceive verb • make a pretence of • make believe with the intent to deceive | ||||||
| story | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program • a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events • a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale • a record or narrative description of past events • a short account of the news • a trivial lie | ||||||
| tale | nounn | |||||
noun • a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program • a trivial lie | ||||||
| untruth | nounn | |||||
noun • a false statement | ||||||
