hoax
noun
something intended to deceive or defraud.
hoaxed
Example Sentences
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In May 2010, Lloyd thought he was being hoaxed when an agent finally agreed to work with him.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023
Even odder: Te’o himself had been hoaxed, because he’d never met the person he thought he was dating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
Either TMZ got hoaxed or ‘Empire’ star Jussie Smollett straight up fabricated details, but there is no way the hate crime described in the TMZ story occurred as described.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 29, 2019
Another self‑publicising sister first concocted a stunt involving a forged letter from the King of the Zulus and then hoaxed newspapers with a claim that assassins had tried to stab her.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2013
We have been hoaxed along by comparable substitutes for technology right up to the present.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
