Words similar to hoax

Example sentences for: hoax

How can you use “hoax” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Lewinsky" (though it didn't say why) before acknowledging that it "could have been a hoax.
I think it's hunting an Apparent Hoax.
There is, for example, a piece on spoofs in which Rose cites several that are well known, omits others (like Poe's The Great Balloon Hoax), and includes at least one that is a satire, which is a different sort of animal: Gulliver's Travels is not, to my mind, a spoof.
It was all, they insist, a statistical hoax.
AOL quickly identified the site as a hoax and pulled it Jan.