hoax

Speech parts

1. hoax - Noun

2. hoax - Verb

Meaning

A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.

To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fraud swindle humbug trick fake deception con ruse prank sham scam bamboozle fraudulence imposture dupery
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Antonyms

good natural certain real positive attention
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Hypernyms

wile chicane cozen deceive trickery guile

Hyponyms

goldbrick

Phrases with the word

climate hoax global hoax mail hoax

Derivatives

Hoaxed hoaxing

Examples

With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it. James Inhofe

We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all. Dwight Schultz

While all men are born as equals, to say that Brahmins alone are the highest and all others are low as Pariah (the Untouchables) or Panchama is sheer nonsense. It is roguish to say so. It is a big hoax played on us. Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax. Diana Wynne Jones

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax. Elvis Presley

Our book is Genesis. Their book is Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, the original environmental hoax. Ann Coulter

Close letter words and terms

hoastman hoatching hoatzin hoaxable hoaxee hoaxer