hoax
骗局,诈骗,哄骗,糗事
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Definitions
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- : something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
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- : to deceive by a hoax; hoodwink.
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Examples
The social network announced its new rules for ads on Tuesday, expanding a previous policy against ads touting vaccine hoaxes.
I thought I’d be having to deal with a lot more people thinking coronavirus is a hoax.
In the last 12 hours, the President had tweeted repeatedly about his poll numbers and various alleged hoaxes and conspiracies, but issued no statements about the tie-up between Oracle and TikTok.
Americans might have been less conflicted had they known that the baby incubator story was a hoax.
Within segments of the political blogosphere, global warming is dismissed as either a hoax or so uncertain as to be unworthy of response.
Jacintha Saldanha died in 2012, after receiving the hoax call to a London hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge.
Hardly anyone, certainly no polite person, ever mentions the Tawana Brawley hoax anymore.
Are American leaders to pretend now that they perpetrated a hoax on Ukrainian leaders?
At the time, authorities in Leizhou denied the reports, asserting that the newspaper had been the victim of a hoax.
If this is all a hoax, Detweiler is a master of the charade.
The fact that the whole affair subsequently proved to be a hoax would not in the least disturb Hunt.
It was another , and a most daring and gigantic one, on the part of Jack and his friends, upon their long-suffering tutor.