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hoaxing

NOUN

cheat

Synonyms

STRONGEST

chicanery deception fraud scam swindle trick trickery

STRONG

artifice baloney bunco con cozening deceit dodge double-dealing fake flimflam frame hoax humbug hustle imposture jazz jive plant put on racket ripoff sell sham spoof sting stunt whitewash

WEAK

bamboozlement bill of goods con game cover up dirty pool dirty trick fast one fast shuffle fix hanky-panky run around shady deal shell game snow job wrong

Antonyms

STRONGEST

honesty truthfulness

STRONG

frankness openness reality truth

NOUN

victimization

Synonyms

STRONGEST

deception

STRONG

artifice baloney bunco chicanery con deceit dodge double-dealing fake fix flimflam fraud hoax humbug hustle imposture jazz jive put on racket ripoff scam sham spoof sting stunt swindle trickery whitewash

WEAK

bamboozlement bill of goods con game cozening dirty pool dirty trick fast one fast shuffle hanky-panky run around shady deal shell game snow job

Antonyms

STRONG

forthrightness frankness honesty

Example Sentences

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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 has sued other hoaxers for invasion of privacy, and successfully petitioned a Florida university to fire a professor, James Tracy, for hoaxing.

From The Guardian • May 2, 2017

Did ever anybody know any good come of hoaxing?

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick

hoaxing

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