hoaxing

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The author’s precise style is crisp as ever but with a wider emotional reach, exploring teenage friendship, imagination, hoaxing, propriety and rebellion.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2022

They devised a political education program, where many folks contemplated the use of hoaxing as a mechanism for social protest.

From Scientific American • Oct. 12, 2020

“The hoaxing charge is problematic for Callimachi and the Times,” Wemple wrote.

From Fox News • Sep. 29, 2020

He had no doubt that her terror at the original poltergeist activity was genuine, and he understood why an imaginative working-class woman might resort to supernatural hoaxing.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2020

My impression was that some wag had been hoaxing either the Plymouth correspondent or the London editor of the Globe.

From The Motor Pirate by Paternoster, G. Sidney