canard

After hearing her daughter's endlessly Byzantine story, Mother dismissed it as a canard—

a.) it was clearly an invented story rife with malicious—and outlandish—gossip.
b.) it was simply an excuse aimed at absolving her daughter of any culpability.
c.) another fanciful musing by her daughter the dreamer.

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