hoax 的 2 个定义
- something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
- to deceive by a hoax; hoodwink.
hoax 近义词
trick
更多hoax例句
- The social network announced its new rules for ads on Tuesday, expanding a previous policy against ads touting vaccine hoaxes.
- I thought I’d be having to deal with a lot more people thinking coronavirus is a hoax.
- In the last 12 hours, the President had tweeted repeatedly about his poll numbers and various alleged hoaxes and conspiracies, but issued no statements about the tie-up between Oracle and TikTok.
- Americans might have been less conflicted had they known that the baby incubator story was a hoax.
- Within segments of the political blogosphere, global warming is dismissed as either a hoax or so uncertain as to be unworthy of response.
- Jacintha Saldanha died in 2012, after receiving the hoax call to a London hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge.
- Hardly anyone, certainly no polite person, ever mentions the Tawana Brawley hoax anymore.
- Are American leaders to pretend now that they perpetrated a hoax on Ukrainian leaders?
- At the time, authorities in Leizhou denied the reports, asserting that the newspaper had been the victim of a hoax.
- If this is all a hoax, Detweiler is a master of the charade.
- The fact that the whole affair subsequently proved to be a hoax would not in the least disturb Hunt.
- It was another hoax, and a most daring and gigantic one, on the part of Jack and his friends, upon their long-suffering tutor.
- The atmosphere is perfect for our hoax and several of us who are "in the know" feel sort of creepy as we wait for the next flash.
- Almost immediately it was announced that the news of the victory had been a hoax.
- Smiling in appreciation of the proposed hoax the widow took a step or two.