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- noun Alternative spelling of
hoaxer .
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Examples
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But does Chase have to be a "hoaxter," as Kitman calls him, to mock our eagerness for resolution?
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Libertarians of course feel, that everyone should have the freedom to pay half of their income to some hoaxter protecting them from evil spirits.
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So did filmmaker and now legendary hoaxter Dan Mirvish, who together with Eitan Gorlin invented the fake Eisenstadt character for satirical purposes.
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But skepticism led to discussion, and the hoaxter appeared from behind the curtain, in a fairly classic move in hoax stories:
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If you read the pair of comments on the NYT post from Serdar Yegulalp (which is most likely another nom de plume), you'll discover Charnel House was the imprint of Crad Kilodney, internationally famous hoaxter extraordinaire, a man who sold his "amazing" chapbooks (of which I have every one, almost) at the corners of Toronto's Yonge and Bloor Streets during the final decades of the twentieth century.
Read if you dare ... Frank Wilson 2008
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There's plenty of real hoaxters who have staged elaborate put-ons that we don't need to start applying the hoaxter accusation to everyone whose lives we don't understand.
Am I a liar? Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Hoaxters dont make space ships, nuclear bombs, and computers … scientists do … and the scientists say global warming is indeed real … YOU are the hoaxter …
Think Progress » Sen. Inhofe Compares People Who Believe In Global Warming To ‘The Third Reich’ 2006
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But skepticism led to discussion, and the hoaxter appeared from behind the curtain, in a fairly classic move in hoax stories:
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But skepticism led to discussion, and the hoaxter appeared from behind the curtain, in a fairly classic move in hoax stories:
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Ubicomp hoax storytelling 2008
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But technical analysts at the secretive National Security Agency believe it would have been almost impossible for even the most skilled Qaeda hoaxter to convincingly cut and paste the message together from bits of old bin Laden speeches and broadcasts.
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