Meaning of hoaxy | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling or characteristic of a hoax; prone to hoaxes.

informal

Examples

“Of all the unmitigated hoaxes that were ever foisted on a credulous world, Protestantism was about the ‘hoaxiest.’”

“The hoax, it admitted later, was “to demonstrate that some contemporary compositions are so obscure as to be indistinguishable from tapes of percussions played at random.” What made the hoax hoaxier was the reaction of music critics, who wrote serious discussions of the Zak composition.”

“In modern times, hoaxes have migrated from the mainstream papers to the tabloid outriders like the old National Enquirer, the new Globe, and the hoaxiest of them all, The Weekly World News, purveyor of the “Bat Boy” cover stories.”

“It’s been a while since we’ve seen a real anti-Semitic hate crime in the USA. We’ve mostly been seeing fake, hoaxy ones.”

“Similarly, Agalides argues that it is important that Cadere is sometimes the victim of his stratagems, that he remains visible even as he stumbles. She calls him a trickster in the sense that he is “homeless and nomadic, absurd, mischievous and hoaxy.””

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