Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who hoaxes.
Wiktionary
- n. Someone who does hoaxes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who hoaxes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who plays practical jokes on others
Examples
“A man who alerted beachgoers was called a hoaxer and taken in for questioning over the incident at Kairaki beach north of Christchurch but police later said he was not the only one fooled.”
“I can't pinpoint the exact time I changed from a disbeliver 'hoaxer' as disbelievers are called, to a 'truth' person.”
“Barrett's conduct mirrors that of hoaxer "Captain Sir" Alan”
“The other one is a picaresque fantastical-historical novel that takes the form of a fake memoir written by a famous 18th-century hoaxer named George Psalmanazar, in which he gives the real story behind his real-life memoir in which he said he was giving the real story.”
“The hoaxer, it seemed, had exploited the trickle-up nature of online information flow.”
“Earlier, the hoaxer -- one of several plausible suspects -- who claimed in 1913 to have unearthed the early humanoid known as Piltdown Man had archaeologists fooled for 40 years.”
A Talk with David Sinclair, author of The Land That Never Was
“The article and its new headline now focused on the possibility that a hoaxer had been posing as Milly Dowler, hampering the police investigation.”
The Wall Street Journal: Tabloid's Pursuit of Missing Girl Led to Its Own Demise
“What happens when a hoaxer owns up and nobody believes him?”
The Wall Street Journal: Houdini, Crop Circles and the Need to Believe
“Planned Parenthood suspected that the hoaxer had ties to Live Action, an antiabortion activist group run by Lila Rose, a sometime O'Keefe partner-in-undercover-stinging.”
The Huffington Post: Peter Hart: Pimps and Prostitutes... Again?
“The final version of the story focused on the possibility that a hoaxer had been posing as Ms. Dowler, and had hampered the police probe of her disappearance.”
The Wall Street Journal: News Corp. Unit Plans to Pay $4.7 Million in Dowler Hack
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The Grifters
You're on the grift, same as me.
cheater, cheat, deceiver, deluder, dissimulator, swindler, faker, fleecer, flimflammer, fraud, fraudster, hustler and 81 more...
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