hoaxing
- present participle of hoax.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Williams looked at her doubtingly, and still feared she was hoaxing him.
From A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties by Major, Charles
