hoax
തട്ടിപ്പ്
definition
verb
I now have reason to believe that in unraveling a hoax I was hoaxed myself.
deceive with a hoax.
noun
they recognized the plan as a hoax
a humorous or malicious deception.
example
I know that Ern Malley was not a real person, but a personality invented in order to 'hoax' me.
But no accident was discovered and police are treating the incident as a malicious 'hoax' call.
the evidence had been planted as part of an elaborate 'hoax'
they recognized the plan as a 'hoax'
It leads with a report that two ambulance crew have been suspended after claims they made a 'hoax' emergency call to colleagues.
As I speculated before, it could be that he is the victim of an elaborate 'hoax' .
To be more precise, it began with a 'hoax' newspaper story in Chicago.
A suspicious device discovered outside the home of a prison officer turned out to be an elaborate 'hoax' .
Of course, with the aid of mirrors, it was all an elaborate 'hoax' with a master hidden inside making the moves.
A 'hoax' bomb, consisting of a plastic bag with wires and batteries taped to it, was found inside the concert hall on the same day.
he was accused of making 'hoax' calls
A funeral urn full of ashes left in a Salford cab may have been part of an elaborate 'hoax' by Irish pranksters.
These 'hoax' messages promise free products if the message is forwarded to a certain number of people.
a 'hoax' 999 call
The police say they are following a definite line of inquiry into the 'hoax' call and hope to bring the culprit to justice shortly.
He spoke on pranks, frauds, and 'hoaxes' from around the world.
In fact, in 1999 he published a revised edition of the book which argued that not only was her work unreliable due to bad research, but that the poor woman had actually been 'hoaxed' by a number of the islanders she spent time with.
The Home Office confirmed extra measures could be added to the Emergency Anti-Terrorism Bill to increase penalties for 'hoaxers' .
I now have reason to believe that in unraveling a hoax I was 'hoaxed' myself.
Then he turned to 'hoaxing' the gullible, those who wanted to believe in ‘miracle cures’.
When I ask if he has ever run into any of the celebrities he has 'hoaxed' , his initial response is to deconstruct the question.
I wonder how many 'hoaxes' and scams are happening in that part of the world as we speak?
No amount of fossil data will induce them to admit they are 'hoaxing' their readers.
It's not beyond people to conduct elaborate online 'hoaxes' for any number of reasons that all really boil down to a means of getting attention.
When it came to 'hoaxing' the general public, Barnum was very clever in the way he positioned himself.
These people are cheats, fraudsters, charlatans and 'hoaxers' .
They organised elaborate 'hoaxes' like the bestowing of imaginary honours, which he appears to have accepted with due solemnity.
The image rotation and the dark gray line that cuts across both images and plain black background are a clear indication of tampering, an obvious clue left by the 'hoaxer' as a hint that there is something wrong with the overall image.
Agent Bald, let's talk about the phone calls that the suspects say they made that were treated as 'hoaxes' or jokes and nobody paid attention.
James also investigated the case and found that Tina was 'hoaxing' her adoptive parents and using the media attention to assist her quest to find her biological parents.
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