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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, wile Associated 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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| IT takes a villa to perpetrate a cultural fraud: Behind every hoaxster playing fast and loose with facts stands a teeming mansion of elite supporters, from professionals and educators to celebrities and journalists. But whereas federal prosecutors had good reason to believe Capone was a mobster, there's little evidence that the immigrants, hoaxsters, or common criminals Justice nabs are actually terrorists. His new book, ``Jay's Journal of Anomalies: Conjurers, Cheats, Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters, Imposters, Pretenders, Side-Show Showmen, Armless Calligraphers, Mechanical Marvels, Popular Entertainments,'' includes some of these devices of wonder. |
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