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Synonyms for hoax
hoʊkshoax
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Princeton's WordNet
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, prankhoax, 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 Synonymes
hoaxnoun
Synonyms:
deception (for sport), cheat, fraud, imposition, practical jokehoaxverb
Synonyms:
deceive (jocosely), cheat, impose upon
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#3222 | fox | |
#4480 | fraud | |
#6134 | fake | |
#6675 | joke | |
#7167 | trick | |
#11065 | scam | |
#12811 | pseudo | |
#15524 | deception | |
#18520 | parody | |
#19024 | fob | |
#20014 | sham | |
#22497 | hoax | |
#27783 | spoof | |
#29414 | prank | |
#30154 | deceit | |
#33962 | takeoff | |
#37819 | drool | |
#40057 | gammon | |
#40207 | caper | |
#40443 | mockery | |
#44008 | lampoon | |
#46000 | dupe | |
#46106 | tosh | |
#47210 | burlesque | |
#47257 | charade | |
#49733 | bosh | |
#50882 | humbug | |
#55561 | pretender | |
#56153 | travesty | |
#69173 | duplicity | |
#69823 | imposter | |
#74774 | baloney | |
#78721 | impostor | |
#79626 | antic | |
#110573 | bamboozle | |
#116761 | twaddle | |
#130303 | faker | |
#133752 | pseud | |
#323539 | fraudulence |
How to use hoax in a sentence?
What's really shocked us, since we started the company, is just the proliferation, particularly around health care, of hoax sites that are really in it for the money. They're in it for the ad revenue.
They have a hoax going on over there, let's take care of it.
There was always a group of contrarian intellectuals or pseudointellectuals who were very aggressive and tended to downplay the severity of the pandemic and say it was a hoax or nothing more than the flu.
And for them to be doing this, saying this and putting an impeachment on the table, which is a hoax....
Impeachment is a hoax. It's a sham.
Translations for hoax
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- خدعةArabic
- napálit, kachna, podvést, žert, podvod, mystifikaceCzech
- hereinlegen, anführen, Schabernack, Trick, StreichGerman
- φάρσαGreek
- filfa, bulo, farsaSpanish
- فریبPersian
- huijaus, huijataFinnish
- canular, duper, mystification, berner, intoxFrench
- מתחHebrew
- छलHindi
- átverésHungarian
- berita palsuIndonesian
- frodare, frodeItalian
- ペテンに掛ける, ペテン, 悪戯, でっち上げJapanese
- ವಂಚನೆKannada
- hoaxDutch
- puss, bedragNorwegian
- mistyfikacja, szalbierstwoPolish
- fraudar, fraudePortuguese
- cioara vopsitaRomanian
- трюк, разыгрывать, обман, розыгрыш, мистификация, разыгратьRussian
- గాలివార్తTelugu
- หลอกลวงThai
- şakaTurkish
- בלאָףYiddish
- 惡作劇Chinese
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