Canard vs Slander - What's the difference?
canard | slander |
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.
A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken or published), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.
As nouns the difference between canard and slander
is that canard is a false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so while slander is a false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken or published), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.As a verb slander is
to utter a slanderous statement.canard
English
Noun
(en noun)- It’s a cinch, now that Spurling has cleared away a century’s worth of misapprehensions and canards .