Associations to the word «Hoax»

Wiktionary

HOAX, verb. (transitive) To deceive (someone) by making them believe something which has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated. (scam)
HOAX, noun. Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.

Dictionary definition

HOAX, noun. Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage.
HOAX, verb. Subject to a playful hoax or joke.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne