Canard vs Chicanery - What's the difference?
canard | chicanery |
A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
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(aeronautics) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
(transport, engineering) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.
Deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
(countable, legal) A slick performance by a lawyer.
As nouns the difference between canard and chicanery
is that canard is a false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so while chicanery is deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.canard
English
Noun
(en noun)- It’s a cinch, now that Spurling has cleared away a century’s worth of misapprehensions and canards .
