Synonyms for hoax
hoʊkshoax

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1. hoax

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

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

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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

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1. hoaxnoun

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

2. hoaxverb

   Synonyms:
   deceive (jocosely), cheat, impose upon

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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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1. Cara Cullen:

   On March 31, my mother-in-law was one of the first people to pass away from this virusin Massachusetts. ... I do know how serious this is, i dont think this is a hoax. I think its serious. And my four children never saw their grandmother again and havent been able to properly grieve.So I do recognize how real this virus is.

2. Donald Trump:

   Impeachment is a hoax. It's a sham.

3. Donald Trump:

   The Russia witch hunt was a plan by those who lost the election to try and illegally regain power by framing innocent Americans – many of them, they suffered – with an elaborate hoax.

4. The President:

   -- Marshall Cohen CohenHarris : Donald Trump called Covid a' hoax'.

5. Benito Mussolini:

   But which race? Does there exist a German race? Has it ever existed? Will it ever exist? Reality, myth, or hoax of the theorists? Ah well, we respond, a Germanic race does not exist. Various movements. Curiosity. Stupor. We repeat. Does not exist. We don't say so. Scientists say so. Hitler says so.