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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 5 votes

  1. hoax

    Synonyms:
    befool, gammon, bamboozle, dupe, trick, trepan

    Antonyms:
    guide, enlighten, undeceive, inform, direct, correct, regulate

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-onverb

    something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

    Synonyms:
    pasquinade, put-on, tarradiddle, duplicity, drool, twaddle, bilgewater, caper, burlesque, fraud, parody, baloney, takeoff, joke, mockery, tommyrot, humbug, pretender, charade, fake, faker, impostor, role player, sham, fraudulence, dupery, pseud, trick, pseudo, antic, lampoon, shammer, snake oil, travesty, sendup, tosh, boloney, deceit, taradiddle, spoof, imposter, bosh, prank

  2. hoax, pull someone's leg, play a joke onverb

    subject to a playful hoax or joke

    Synonyms:
    play tricks, play a joke on, play a trick on, trick, flim-flam, fox, fob, pull a fast one on, pull someone's leg

Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 2 votes

  1. hoaxnoun

    Synonyms:
    deception (for sport), cheat, fraud, imposition, practical joke

  2. hoaxverb

    Synonyms:
    deceive (jocosely), cheat, impose upon

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "hoax":

    prank, joke, deception, carve-up, scam, deceit, trick

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  1. List of known nicknames for "Hoax":

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How to use hoax in a sentence?

  1. Tony Illman:

    After much digging, we were able to make out the date, the coordinates, the ship’s name and direction of the voyage (Cardiff in Wales to Makassar in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia), it was clearly very exciting but we needed a lot more information. We wanted to know if what we had found was historically significant or a very inventive hoax.

  2. Donald Trump:

    Impeachment is a hoax. It's a sham, there was nothing done wrong. To use the power of impeachment for this nonsense is an embarrassment to this country.

  3. Rahm Emanuel:

    The only reason that Jussie Smollett thought Jussie Smollett could get away with this hoax about a hate crime is because of the environment President Trump created.

  4. Emma Watson:

    I knew it was a hoax but I think a lot of people that were close to me knew gender equality was an issue but didn’t think it was that urgent, that it was a thing of the past.

  5. Donald Trump:

    And for them to be doing this, saying this and putting an impeachment on the table, which is a hoax....


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