hoaxes in English

noun

1

a humorous or malicious deception.

they recognized the plan as a hoax

synonyms: practical joke, joke, jest, prank, trick, ruse, deception, fraud, bluff, confidence trick, con, spoof, scam, setup

verb

1

deceive with a hoax.

I now have reason to believe that in unraveling a hoax I was hoaxed myself.

noun

• practical joke, joke, jest, prank, trick, ruse, deception, fraud, bluff, confidence trick, con, spoof, scam, setup
• fraud, humbug, dupery, put-on, fraudulence

verb

• play a joke on

Use "hoaxes" in a sentence

1. Fortunately, the Internet itself provides a good way to debunk these hoaxes.

2. Although bids were received for amounts as high as $160,109.99, many were either retracted by the bidders or cancelled as hoaxes.

3. In 1773 there appeared in the Public Advertiser one of Franklin's Cleverest hoaxes, " An Edict of the King of Prussia," proclaiming that the island of Britain was a colony of Prussia, having been settled by Angles and Saxons, having been protected by Prussia, having been defended by Prussia against France in the war just past, and never having been definitely freed from Prussia's rule; and