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hoax
noun artifice, beguilement, canard, cheat, circumvention, counterfeit, cozenage, deceit, defraudation, delusion, device, dupery, duplicity, fake, false alarm, false report, falsification, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, guile, imposition, imposture, lie, ludificatio, machination, masquerade, pettifogging, practical joke, pretense, ruse, scheme, sham, shift, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trick, trickery, wileAssociated concepts: false representation, forgery, fraud, impersonation
See also: artifice, betray, bilk, bunko, canard, circumvent, collusion, deceive, deception, defraud, delude, dupe, ensnare, evade, fake, false pretense, falsification, frame up, hoodwink, illude, imposture, knavery, maneuver, misrepresent, palter, pretense, pretext, ruse, trick