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hoaxer

[ UK /hˈə‍ʊksɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who plays practical jokes on others

How To Use hoaxer In A Sentence

  • Or were the knives sent to a random group of people to confuse the hunt for either the killer or the hoaxer?
  • These people are cheats, fraudsters, charlatans and hoaxers.
  • Both areas are monitored round the clock by surveillance cameras and detectives are hoping that the hoaxer has been captured on tape.
  • The hoaxer had sent the police on a wild - goose chase.
  • The image rotation and the dark gray line that cuts across both images and plain black background are a clear indication of tampering, an obvious clue left by the hoaxer as a hint that there is something wrong with the overall image.
  • Anyone expecting the story of a compulsive hoaxer to be funny will quickly realise their mistake. Times, Sunday Times
  • But it is now thought hoaxers photographed a toy in a field and posted the picture online. The Sun
  • You wouldn't have any objection to a phonologist telling police that, based on the accent revealed on tape, the Ripper hoaxer probably came from Wearside. Another scandal
  • Police had believed that the recruitment message was the work of a hoaxer. Times, Sunday Times
  • What happens when a hoaxer owns up and nobody believes him? Houdini, Crop Circles and the Need to Believe
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