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- noun Alternative form of
hoaxer . (rare)
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Examples
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I have experience as a media "hoaxster" and therefore could spot whether balloon boy was a hoax or not.
Dan Mirvish: Castellanos CNN Scandal: Confessions of a Balloon Boy Pundit! 2009
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Conservative court colleague and George W. Bush appointee Samuel Alito has also given the Wriston Lecture and attended fundraisers for The American Spectator magazine and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the wonderful folks who gave us ACORN hoaxster James O'Keefe.
Michael Winship: The Bush Legacy Strikes Out American Justice Michael Winship 2011
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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The latest commie pinko hoaxster enemy of Fox 'News' is...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen: 'Green News Report' - August 4, 2011 Brad Friedman 2011
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Lila Rose of Live Action Films is a former associate of right wing hoaxster James O'Keefe, who orchestrated a sting operation against the social justice group ACORN.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: Don't Snort Bath Salts, Kids The Media Consortium 2011
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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The latest commie pinko hoaxster enemy of Fox 'News' is...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen: 'Green News Report' - August 4, 2011 Brad Friedman 2011
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Lila Rose of Live Action Films is a former associate of right wing hoaxster James O'Keefe, who orchestrated a sting operation against the social justice group ACORN.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: Don't Snort Bath Salts, Kids The Media Consortium 2011
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Only recently has some hoaxster grafted Pelosi's name into the tale.
Sliming Pelosi 2009
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And if this hoaxster had painted the faces of the real people on that plane, it would have done just as much damage to the families.
Reality Check Ahead 2007
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This is problematic because the McCain campaign doesn't want to have been perceived as pushing an incendiary story that not only turned out to be a hoax but which police officials said today risked blowing up into a "national incident" and has local police preparing to file charges against the hoaxster.
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Now I find this fact to be striking in TPM's reporting, "This is problematic because the McCain campaign doesn't want to have been perceived as pushing an incendiary story that not only turned out to be a hoax but which police officials said today risked blowing up into a" national incident "and has local police preparing to file charges against the hoaxster."
John McCain asks Ted Stevens to resign...But is mute of the racial hate coming his campaign 2008
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