2. Verb. (third-person singular of hoax) ¹
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Definition of Hoaxes
1. hoax [v] - See also: hoax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoaxes
Literary usage of Hoaxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Henry J. Raymond and the New York Press, for Thirty Years: Progress of by Augustus Maverick (1870)
"No account of the history of Journalism in New York would be complete without a
record of the famous hoaxes which have appeared ..."
2. The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon on the Reign of Louis XIV and the Regency by Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon (1900)
"... He pretends to Reform—Trick played upon me—His hoaxes—His Panegyric of me—Madame
de Sabran.— How the Regent treated his Mistresses. ..."
3. The Memoirs of the Duke de Saint-Simon on the Reign of Louis XIV. and the by Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon (1876)
"... pretends to Reform—Trick played upon me—His hoaxes—His Panegyric of me—Madame
de Sabran— How the Regent treated liis Mistresses. ..."
4. A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times: Illustrated by Anecdotes by Henry Sampson (1875)
"SWINDLES AND hoaxes. IT is of course only natural that as soon as advertising
became general, that portion of the community which regards the other portion ..."
5. A Century of Anecdote from 1760-1860 by John Timbs (1864)
"hoaxes BY THEODORE HOOK. Hook, in an amusing account of his going to the Trial
of Lord Melville, describes a hoax which he practised upon a country-looking ..."
6. Tea-table Talk, Ennobled Actresses, and Other Miscellanies by Mathews (Anne Jackson) (1857)
"... HOOK'S hoaxes. THE first practical hoax of>my magnitude of which the youthful
Theodore Hook was guilty—and which not only made the greatest stir at the ..."
7. My Life and Recollections by Grantley Fitzhardinge Berkeley (1866)
"Sydney Smith and his hoaxes—Sir James Mackintosh—The Misses Berry—Lady Charleville
and Lady Cork—Holdernesse House re-unions— Lady Jersey's retort-courteous ..."
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