Crossword clues for hoax
hoax
- Fake story that might be discredited by Snopes.com
- Elaborate prank
- Elaborate lie
- Debunker's target
- Debunked thing
- Con man's trick
- April 1 event
- Welles's "The War of the Worlds," e.g
- Welles' 'War of the Worlds,' e.g
- Trickster's deception
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, e.g
- The performances of Milli Vanilli, essentially
- The Hitler Diaries, e.g
- The finding of a Virgin Mary-shaped gummy candy, e.g
- The Cardiff Giant, notably
- The Cardiff Giant, for one
- The 1938 broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" was one
- Subject of a forwarded e-mail, often
- Sting, for instance
- Snopes subject
- Sham or scam
- Scam that might be debunked by snopes.com
- Publicity stunt, perhaps
- Prankster's scam
- Phony discovery, perhaps
- No mere prank
- Milli Vanilli, famously
- Mencken's history of the bathtub, e.g
- Many an April 1 "news" item
- Many a P.T. Barnum exhibit
- Manti Te'o's girlfriend, for one
- Like many a catfish relationship
- Kurt Vonnegut's faux commencement address e-mail, e.g
- It's perpetrated by a prankster
- It can be spread by a doctored photograph
- Global warming, some say
- Fake, such as Piltdown Man
- Facebook privacy announcement, e.g
- Elaborate falsehood
- Elaborate fake
- Deceptive deed
- Crop circles, e.g
- Cottingley Fairies, for one
- Chain letters, usually
- Bigfoot photo, e.g
- Big scam
- Barnum's Fiji mermaid, for one
- Barnum's "Feejee Mermaid," e.g
- Attempted deception
- April Fools' Day news story, sometimes
- April 1st antic
- April 1 trick
- 1938 "The War of the Worlds" broadcast, for one
- 1869's Cardiff Giant, e.g
- "The War of the Worlds" broadcast, notably
- "Balloon Boy," for one
- Martian invasion report, e.g.
- Major prank
- Mare's-nest
- Imposture
- Put-on
- Con game
- Hornswoggle
- Deception such as the Piltdown Man
- Piltdown man, notably
- Elaborate April fool
- Bigfoot photo, e.g.
- Put one over on
- April 1 news story, maybe
- Piltdown man, for one
- Snopes.com subject
- What an unbelievable YouTube video might be
- Relative of fake news
- Crop circles, e.g.
- Something intended to deceive
- Deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- Practical joke, e.g
- April 1st event
- Canard
- Ruse
- Practical joke, e.g.
- Hitler's diaries, e.g.
- Dupe's downfall
- Fraudulent event
- Martian invasion report, e.g
- Humorous or malicious deception
- Two short tools for fool
- Trick central characters in show with source of audience vote
- Fast one
- Snow job
- Piltdown man, e.g
- Elaborate ruse
- Deceptive trick
- Deceptive act
- False claim
- Elaborate fraud
- Elaborate deception
- The Piltdown Man, notably
- The Piltdown Man, e.g
- Deceitful device
- Welles' Martian invasion broadcast, e.g
- UFO photo, perhaps
- Spam content, often
- Scam or sham
- Robin Davey band The ___
- Piltdown man, say
- Mare's nest
- Many an urban legend
- Like a famous Welles radio broadcast
- It's not for real
- It's a trick
- Good thing to check Snopes.com for
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hoax \Hoax\, n. [Prob. contr. fr. hocus, in hocus-pocus.]
A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or
story; a practical joke.
--Macaulay.
Hoax \Hoax\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hoaxed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Hoaxing.]
To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to
impose upon sportively.
--Lamb.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1796 (v.), 1808 (n.), probably an alteration of hocus "conjurer, juggler" (1630s), or directly from hocus-pocus. Related: Hoaxed; hoaxing.
Wiktionary
n. Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick. vb. (context transitive English) To deceive (someone) by making them believe something which has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated. (scam)
WordNet
n. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage [syn: fraud, fraudulence, dupery, humbug, put-on]
v. subject to a palyful hoax or joke [syn: pull someone's leg, play a joke on]
Wikipedia
A hoax is a deliberately fabricated falsehood made to masquerade as truth. It is distinguishable from errors in observation or judgment, or rumors, urban legends, pseudosciences or April Fools' Day events that are passed along in good faith by believers or as jokes.
Usage examples of "hoax".
Coral Lorenzen, author of The Great Flying Saucer Hoax and an international director of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, immediately followed through on the startling rumors by putting in a call to Terry Clarke of KALG Radio in Alamogordo, nine miles east of Holloman.
By the end of 1949 Project Grudge claimed that all reports to date had been delusions, illusions, mirages, hysteria, hoaxes, and crackpot tales.
Since most of fandom is conducted by mail, hoaxes are relatively easy to perpetrate.
Given the mentality of fandom, death hoaxes are inevitable occurrences.
Jim Conyers explained about hoaxes in fandom, and how a fan might assume several personas in letter writing, since early fans seldom met.
Corello saw it in their faces: a very visible apprehension that Flyte was hoaxing them.
I hope you will remember my small show of compassion today, as vividly as you may remember any of my occasional humbugs and hoaxes, fobberies and fooleries.
He had been certain that tonight he would trap the haunters and end this hoax.
Javan princess in order to keep her true origin from coming out, and the pretended mother yet another hopper who moved in to protect the girl when it looked likely that the Javan hoax would be exposed?
I was a legitimate writer with a legal use for these tools, and the whole anonymous call was a hoax, used by a kook to get me in trouble.
Klass and others find lexicographic and typographic inconsistencies that suggest that the whole thing is a hoax.
Just as no one would take alcoholism and addiction seriously as diseases back in the thirties, lycanthropic hysteria has been passed off as a moral problem, or hoax, for almost eighty years.
But I will not undertake the task of distinguishing satire from irony, burlesque, caricature, lampoon, travesty, pasquinade, raillery, billingsgate, diatribe, invective, imitation, mimicry, parody, jokes, hoax, and spoof.
To be honest, I minimized it a bit in my own mind because I recalled receiving an anthrax hoax letter three years before.
These cases are very different from that of the so-called Shroud of Turin, which shows something too close to a human form to be a misapprehended natural pattern and which is now suggested by carbon-14 dating to be not the death shroud of Jesus, but a pious hoax from the fourteenth century - a time when the manufacture of fraudulent religious relics was a thriving and profitable home handicraft industry.