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hoax

/hohks/US // hoʊks //UK // (həʊks) //

骗局,诈骗,哄骗,糗事

Related Words

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to deceive by a hoax; hoodwink.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
bamboozle斑竹,斑纹,斑鸠,斑马线bluff虚张声势,诈骗,忽悠chicane驰道,岔路口,岔道,岔道口con骗局,骗人,骗术,骗人的deceive哄骗,矇骗,欺瞒,矇混过关delude悖谬,妄想,悖逆,悖论dupe欺瞒,欺骗,欺负人,欺负fleece羊毛衫,羊毛,羊毛毡,羊毛制品flimflam虚张声势,骗局,虚伪性,虚张声势的行为fool傻瓜,傻子,笨蛋,愚弄frame框架,框框,框,帧gammon鲑鱼,三文鱼,伽马,赌博gull海鸥,海燕,海鷗,鸥类hoodwink欺瞒,蒙骗,骗取,蒙蔽murphy墨菲,谋杀rook洛克,蟑螂,洛克人,鹏程万里sting蜇伤,刺痛,蜇人,蜇伏swindle诈骗,诓骗,拐骗,骗人fake out冒名顶替,冒牌货,伪造,伪造的play games with玩游戏,做游戏,玩儿游戏,玩游戏的pull one's leg偷鸡不成蚀把米,偷懒,偷工减料,偷鸡摸狗run a game on玩游戏,玩游戏的时候,玩玩,玩儿游戏set up设置,设立,设定,摆设take for a ride乘车,乘坐,坐车,兜兜转转take in收纳,摄取,吸纳,摄入

Examples

  • 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.

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