Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who hoaxes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who hoaxes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who does
hoaxes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who plays practical jokes on others
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Examples
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A man who alerted beachgoers was called a hoaxer and taken in for questioning over the incident at Kairaki beach north of Christchurch but police later said he was not the only one fooled.
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A man who alerted beachgoers was called a hoaxer and taken in for questioning over the incident at Kairaki beach north of Christchurch but police later said he was not the only one fooled.
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I can't pinpoint the exact time I changed from a disbeliver 'hoaxer' as disbelievers are called, to a 'truth' person.
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What happens when a hoaxer owns up and nobody believes him?
Houdini, Crop Circles and the Need to Believe Matt Ridley 2011
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The article and its new headline now focused on the possibility that a hoaxer had been posing as Milly Dowler, hampering the police investigation.
Tabloid's Pursuit of Missing Girl Led to Its Own Demise Steve Stecklow 2011
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Barrett's conduct mirrors that of hoaxer "Captain Sir" Alan
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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The other one is a picaresque fantastical-historical novel that takes the form of a fake memoir written by a famous 18th-century hoaxer named George Psalmanazar, in which he gives the real story behind his real-life memoir in which he said he was giving the real story.
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Planned Parenthood suspected that the hoaxer had ties to Live Action, an antiabortion activist group run by Lila Rose, a sometime O'Keefe partner-in-undercover-stinging.
Peter Hart: Pimps and Prostitutes... Again? Peter Hart 2011
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The hoaxer, it seemed, had exploited the trickle-up nature of online information flow.
February 6th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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Earlier, the hoaxer -- one of several plausible suspects -- who claimed in 1913 to have unearthed the early humanoid known as Piltdown Man had archaeologists fooled for 40 years.
A Talk with David Sinclair, author of The Land That Never Was 2010
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