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hoax English

Meaning hoax meaning

What does hoax mean?
Definitions in simple English

hoax Noun

— A hoax is anything done on purpose to trick or fool people.

hoax Verb

— If you hoax someone, you mislead them on purpose by making them believe something which has been made up to trick or fool them.

hoax

— verb subject to a playful hoax or joke — noun (= fraud) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

Synonyms hoax synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as hoax?

hoax English » English

trick fool cheat swindle deception deceive humbug hoodwink dupe spoof mystify bamboozle imposture con sham fraud bluff gyp defraud deceit cheating bilk trickery take in put-on fake dupery delusion trick someone swindler stratagem screw scam rook pull someone’s leg play a joke on outwit mystification mere nothing mare’s nest leg-pull kidding joke jiggery pokery jest imposition imitation gouge gammon fraudulence

Conjugation hoax conjugation

How do you conjugate hoax?

hoax · verb

Examples hoax examples

How do I use hoax in a sentence?

Simple sentences

My grandpa believes that the moon landing was a hoax.
It could be a hoax.
I believe that it's all a hoax.
Climate change is not a hoax.
It's clearly a hoax.
It was a hoax.
It was definitely a hoax.
Unfortunately, it's a hoax.
You're the victim of a hoax.
Is this a hoax?

Movie subtitles

I'll tell you what I think of your invisible man: it's a hoax.
I shall announce this evening that the whole thing's a hoax, and you'll be the laughing stock of the entire country.
A hoax, is it?
All a hoax?
This is no hoax, Sir Basil.
I was convinced that the letter was a hoax.
You were the victim of a very cruel hoax.
I think she's the victim of a terrible hoax.
The Medical Officer's report on Johnson suggests we were certainly wrong to even consider this might be a hoax.
WELL, I F IT'S A HOAX, IT'S CERTAINLY AN ELABORATE ONE.
IF IT'S A HOAX, MAJOR.
IT'S JUST THAT I CAN'T H ELP FEELING THERE'S MORE TO THIS THAN JUST A HOAX.
That's a fantastic hoax.
It's a hoax.
That message, sent to me on the boat it was a hoax to get me out of my stateroom.
An outstanding hoax.
Perhaps it's a hoax.
What baffles me is why you ever attempted a hoax like this.
Come on. This letter smells like a joke, a hoax.
A hoax has been perpetrated. I'll get to the bottom of it.
The bogus ascension was of course a hoax.
First, I thought it was a hoax.
This letter smells like a joke, a hoax. It's incapable of writing a denunciation letter, but. when it comes to mocking the police, to crossing the inspector, that's.
But it's not a hoax.
A hoax has been perpetrated.
What, a hoax?
However. It was exposed that this skull was a complete hoax.
He liked to mystify, to hoax people.
The United Left is only a minor defensive hoax of spectacular society, a temporary expedient that the system only occasionally needs to resort to.
Martin, it's just a hoax.
More particularly, there's a most extraordinary request that they be allowed to interview you in connection with an elaborate hoax played upon the authorities.
This isn't a hoax.
It's all a hoax, isn't it, my lord?

News and current affairs

When the e-mails and the IPCC error were brought to light, editorial writers at The Wall Street Journal launched a vicious campaign describing climate science as a hoax and a conspiracy.
Obama is not only a Muslim but was born in Kenya and thus should be disqualified from the presidency; and global warming is a hoax concocted by a cabal of socialist scientists.
A few weeks of rain in Australia has emboldened those who think that global warming is a gigantic hoax perpetrated by the United Nations or conspiring scientists or maybe men from Mars.

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