What is a good sentence using the word hoax?

Answer 1

Definitions of hoax on the Web: * subject to a playful hoax or joke * fraud: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn * The Hoax is a 2007 American drama film based on the true story of American novelist Clifford Irving's falsified autobiography about the seclusive ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoax * A hoax is a deliberate attempt to dupe, deceive or trick an audience into believing, or accepting, that something is real, when in fact it is not ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoax * Describes an intentionally distributed false warning that is treated as true and passed on by many users. ...

www.emsisoft.com/en/kb/articles/tec080424/ * Hoaxes are usually silly pranks, and are a form of chain mail, and are often also Urban Legends. Read more

www.eset.com/threat-center/threats.php * This usually consists of an email message warning recipients about a new and terribly destructive virus. ...

www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/security/isglosry/index.html * A plan to deceive others into believing a fabricated item or circumstance is authentic or has actually occurred, such as telling the police there ...

john.curtin.edu.au/society/glossary/index.html * Explicitly meaning, in a technical sense of network security research, a form of chain letter, carrying a false warning of a internet security ...

www.contentverification.com/glossary/f-j.html * An e-mail warning of some devastating virus. The e-mail states that this knowledge is new and unknown to the public. ...

maui.Hawaii.edu/computing/virusdef.html * Something which is designed to deceive other people. Some websites and written materials may be hoaxes.

library.chisholm.vic.edu.au/coil/essentials/glossary.htm * A hoax is an email stating something untrue. Common hoaxes include virus hoaxes which have the user delete an important file located on their ...

www.cliftonpark.org/contentredirect.asp * to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous

acaclassof2010studyguides.blogspot.com/2007/10/sat-vocabulary-word-list-updated.html * hoaxes - http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hoaxes/hoax.asp

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Answer 2

Hoax is closer in meaning to trick than lie. Are crop circles (as the result of alien ships landing) a lie? No, they are more akin to a trick. (Thus we say crop circles are a hoax and not a lie). In both there is the flavour of dishonesty. Hoax may differ from trick in that it is aimed to convince many people of an untrue phenomenon and may lack the amused and amusing quality that trick may have. To continue to illustrate the difference: Many, erroneously, claim the 1969 moonlanding to be hoax, but not a lie. Dinosaur footprints have been found with human footprints, but they are hoaxes and not authentic. Obviously, whether a footprint is a dinosaur's or not, it can never be a lie. In the case of crop circles, unless carved out by hurricanes, they are hoaxes.

Hoaxes and lies do have in common that they both represent actions which are intended to deceive, in the case of a hoax, by false evidence, and in the case of a lie, by a false statement of fact.

Answer 3

it s to trick intended to fool people to give a good laugh

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Answer 4

The police spent the two days searching for the kidnapped child, but it turned out to be a hoax. The child was found hiding in the basement with a cell phone and a voice changer.

Answer 5

You tricked me! It was a hoax! Exclaimed Jennifer.