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canard

  1. An unfounded story.
  2. Horizontal stabilizers on aircraft that are situated foreward of the main wings.
  3. An aircraft having such features.

    4. The boy's canard involved him flying a canard, without canards!

apocryphal

  1. Of questionable origin.
  2. Erroneous, or fictitious
  3. Of or having to do with Apocrypha

      4. So what is Apocrypha?
      It seems that Apocrypha are the writings concerning Christ's life that didn't make the Roman Catholic Church's cut into the Bible. They were labeled as non-trustworthy, and inaccurate, a label that only recently is starting to fade.

gainsay

To declare false, to deny, or to contradict.

There are many who gainsay global warming.

Excoriate

  1. To abrade, chafe, take the skin off of.
  2. To strongly censure.

      3. Humanitarians and Human rights activists, by default, excoriate torture methods using excoriation.

Vituperate

  1. To Objurgate.
  2. To harshly abuse; to rail.

The soldier's mother vituperates Dubya every chance she gets.

pillory

Noun: a wooden structure to which offenders were historically fastened, to expose them to public humiliation and scorn.

Verb:

  1. To expose to ridicule and scorn.
  2. To put in a pillory.

The convicted perjurer was pillored as punishment.

opprobrium

Noun

  1. Ignominy, or disgrace due to shameful conduct.
  2. Scorn, or contempt.
  3. A cause of shame or disgrace.

The invasion of Iraq, among other wars, will always remain an opprobrium for the USA.

objurgate

To scold, rebuke sharply, or berate.

It is our human duty to objurgate certain CEOs, who can be known by their chicanery.

inveigh

To protest vehemently and vociferously.

Many humanists inveighed against the death sentence commutated to Timothy McVeigh.

Impugn

To challenge, or attack, alleging falsity.

There is a movement afoot to impugn Dubya's allegations regarding WMDs.

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