Synonym: dupery, fraud, fraudulence, humbug, play a joke on, pull someone's leg, put-on. Meaning: [həʊks] n. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage. v. subject to a playful hoax or joke.
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31 Public schools were probably the greatest victims of the asbestos hoax because of understandable concerns raised by anxious parents.
32 At the school she discovered the call had been a hoax.
33 Note the offence of making a bomb hoax call etc. under section 51 Criminal Law Act 1977.
34 Yesterday civil service union leaders complained that security staff had initially treated it as a hoax.
35 It would be a cruel hoax because City would not be able to undo the damage these young people had suffered.
36 Everyone else seemed to be roused by the War, but she saw it as a giant emotional hoax.
37 Following the find, the centre was evacuated again because of a bomb scare which police believe was a hoax.
38 A hoax is a hoax, of course, but it seems different when the phoney says he is Balenciaga's grandson.
39 This was nothing but an elaborate hoax perpetrated by her in revenge for all the suffering I had caused her.
40 I got an email about another computer virus, but I'm pretty sure it's just a hoax.
41 The rumor was that I had invented him to perpetrate a hoax and had actually written the books myself.
42 Had Neil Armstrong really walked on the moon or was it a magnificent hoax?
43 Perhaps it was a hoax or some one with a grudge.
44 Of 221 launches in answer to unidentified distress signals 216 turned out to be false alarms or hoax calls.
45 To everybody's great relief,(Sentencedict.com ) the bomb scare turned out to be a hoax.
46 All hoax viruses are essentially chain letters.
47 They hoax him out of his money.
48 Also is simply a hoax?
49 Do not hoax macaques to prevent attack.
50 What's your hoax plans on April Fools' Day...
51 Are you certain that it isn't a hoax?
52 Swiss spaghettiharvest tops the hoax list.
53 The Atlantic's editors published a series based on supposedly rediscovered love letters between Lincoln and Ann Rutledge, only to realize over time that they had fallen victim to an elaborate hoax.
54 He made a hoax call pretending to be the boss.
55 From coast to coast, the story is the same – global warming is a hoax.
56 The Piltdown Man is a famous hoax in which pieces of a skull and jawbone found in 1912 were believed to be the fossilized remains of an early form of human being.
57 "This is all we need to end this reign of terror, " Cilia said. "We can go straight to Minister Ciran Ern and tell him that the Annihilator is a hoax. He'll disband the Guardians.
58 In the end, the hoax was all in good fun.
59 Heavier - than - air flying machines are impossible be a hoax.
60 The boss hoax set off a strike by workers last year.