CANARDS Synonyms

• misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.)

• a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• light informal conversation for social occasions

• a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people

• a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others

• wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies

• talk socially without exchanging too much information

• information that is incorrect

• information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• a short moral story (often with animal characters)

• a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

• 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

• a false statement

• the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

• imagination unrestricted by reality

• fiction with a large amount of imagination in it

• something many people believe that is false

• indulge in fantasies

• 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

• 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

• a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people

• gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth

• tell or spread rumors

• a false statement

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• subject to a playful hoax or joke