hoax
/hoʊks/ nom C2En français : canular, mystification, intox
- Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick. · The phone call to the police about a tiger in a tree turned out to be a hoax.· The news story about the pop singer coming to town, unfortunately for his fans, turned out to be a hoax.
Pluriel hoaxes
Dans la bibliothèque
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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