hoax
/hoʊks/ verbo C1En español: engañar, embaucar
- To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated.
He/she/it hoaxes · Pasado hoaxed · Participio pasado hoaxed · Forma en -ing hoaxing
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Indeed, if I may make a full confession to you, I was quite convinced that the letter from Meiringen was a hoax, and I allowed you to depart on that errand under the persuasion that some development of this sort would follow.
“Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its object might be I could not imagine.
I suspect a hoax is intended, but the instigators of it little knew whom they had to deal with.
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