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Definition of Hoax

Hoax

  1. A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.
  2. To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively.

Hoax Quotations

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
Clint Eastwood

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

The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.
David Mamet

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
Angela Carter

The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.
Bernie Sanders
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Hoax Translations

hoax in Dutch is bedotten, beduvelen, beetnemen
hoax in French is attrape
hoax in German is narre, foppen
hoax in Swedish is lura, spratt

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